A special commodity, carbon dioxide, has been licensed for trading on the China Beijing Environment Exchange.

China's National Development and Reform Commission and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine began to carry out special inspections for energy efficiency labeling from September 8.

China's National Development and Reform Commission has signed a two-year agreement with Japan-based Hitachi on the implementation of a small and medium enterprise energy-saving and emission reduction demonstration program.

China's National Development and Reform Commission has just published the Renewable Energy Development Plan for the 11th Five-year Period in which it says that the country's renewable energy consumption shall account for 10% of the total energy consumption by 2010, which is an increase of 2.5% over that of 2005.