28-29 October 2009 International Conference on EU-China Cooperation on Near Zero Emissions Coal: Phase I results and next steps

The EU and China Partnership on Climate Change focuses on concrete actions to develop, deploy and lower the cost of clean energy technologies. In this respect the EU and China developed the China-EU Near Zero Emission Coal (NZEC) project with the aim of developing and demonstrating carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology, in the EU and China, to capture and storage CO₂ emissions from coal-fired power plants by 2020.