The Roles of Government in the Innovation and Use of Clean-Coal Technologies in the United States and China

The Energy Technology Innovation Project hosted and co-sponsored a workshop on clean coal technologies with the Department of High Technology of China's Ministry of Science and Technology and the China Coal Research Institute. This workshop was held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 4–5, 2003. The goal of the workshop was to explore the role of government in the research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RD3) of clean-coal technologies (CCT) in the United States and China. Other primary objectives of the workshop were to identify the most important barriers and incentives for the RD3 of clean-coal technologies and to discuss potential policy recommendations.