based 501(c)3 non-profit organization, established in 2001, focused on sustainable low carbon economic development, global climate change, and the environment. Our Programs
The NCSD's core platform presently consists of three primary program areas of Sustainable Development, which address issues relating to Land, Air and Water. Land - Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment
From its beginning,
the NCSD has developed a deep and rich experience in assisting businesses and communities in successfully accomplishing environmental remediation and brownfields revitalization efforts. The NCSD, working through its supporting organization, the Brownfields Stewardship Fund (“BSF”), has successfully helped local communities and state governments to achieve community renewal and job creation while at the same time directly and effectively confronting environmentally contaminated sites that blocked the path to renewal and economic benefit. Working with Federal and state regulators in the U.S., sites previously deemed too complicated and costly to mitigate were, through example, shown to have a solution; sometimes a relatively simple and cost effective solution. Air - Global Warming and Low Carbon Development
We are proud of our motto "Promoting the low carbon economy" and look forward to making all aware of our mission, strategic relationships that promote the continuity of our mission and the global collaboration needed to understand and take steps to mitigate global climate change and its environmental and economic impacts. At the heart of the discussion is that climate change is nothing sudden, it has been building for a least two centuries since the beginning of industrialization. At its core we have a global pollution crisis that began with industrialization and continues today. Recognition of its most obvious effects in water, land and air spawned Earth Day and other historic environmental events over the last 50 years. The developed world has long derived great prosperity from industrial development and the current developing world is hoping to achieve similar benefits. The NCSD is working with partners around the world to promote the prosperity that comes from economic development while advancing the proposition that a low carbon future (a low pollution future) is essential to and can promote new prosperity in all nations. We believe that leadership must be through example and that our mission of using demonstration projects to show how this can be achieved is a worthy definition of sustainable development. The NCSD and the China Clean Development Mechanism Fund Management Center (“CDM Fund”), a Chinese not-for-profit organization established by the Ministry of Finance of China, in recognition of the challenges and opportunities presented by the 3Es, have jointly launched the China-US Low Carbon Development Cooperation Program (“China-US Program”)
The China-US Program was officially launched in Washington D.C. on November 10th, 2009. The NCSD works to promote a sustainable low carbon economy primarily through the implementation of demonstration projects designed to reduce carbon emissions from a host of industry sectors by advancing energy efficiency, clean and renewable energy technologies and sound and sustainable environmental policies and practices. The primary geographic focus of the China-US Program is on cross-border opportunities and cooperation between the United States and China…the two largest economies in the world. The purpose of the China-U.S. Program is to explore and develop innovative non-governmental cooperation channels and market-based mechanisms, to facilitate governmental and business cooperation between China and the US, and to promote practical bilateral cooperation on low carbon development through the implementation of demonstration projects. The objective of the China-U.S. Program is to promote practical efforts through demonstration projects that will guide in the formulation of a comprehensive, market-based policy framework to limit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainable low carbon economic development, that creates sustainable jobs and puts the two largest emitting countries on course toward a sustainable energy future. The NCSD will harness the resources and concrete efforts of Chinese and U.S. government-based agencies, business, industry, academia and non profit communities of both countries and channel them into public-private initiatives promoting capacity building, sustainable economic development and investment projects, and practical applications in low carbon, climate resilience and clean-energy technologies. Water - China Water Conservation Fund
Motivated by the looming crisis of water scarcity - exacerbated by climate change - which threatens livelihoods and international and food security, foments large-scale health concerns, and threatens to undermine economic development in large parts of the planet, the NCSD and its partners in China convened a working group on water conservation and scarcity, focused on China, to raise awareness among policy-makers and the private sector, and provide a framework for public-private initiatives. Conservation, efficient utilization and sustainable management of water resources, brought on my water scarcity, is one of the biggest challenges facing the environmental sector, not only in China, but globally, and is essential to protecting human health and the environment and realizing the goals and benefits of clean and safe drinking water and clean water bodies necessary for long-term community sustainability. The NCSD, in association with the Chinese Agricultural Water-saving & Rural Drinking Water Supply Technology Association (“CAAWS”) of the Ministry of Water Resources (“MOWR”), and other partners, have established the China Water Conservation Program,
a non-governmental cooperation program to facilitate practical cooperation between China and the U.S. to promote water conservation and efficient management of water resources in China. The China Water Conservation Program will explore various strategies for the establishment of appropriate mechanisms to promote water conservation and efficient management of water resource in China. One of the first steps under this program is to jointly formulate the China Water Conservation Development Strategy and Water Resources Sustainability Policy (the “Water Conservation Strategy and Sustainability Policy”) with the goal of increasing the sustainability of water and waste-water infrastructure, promoting appropriate policy and best practices in China for water conservation and resource management, and promoting the approaches for the relevant infrastructure investment. Concurrently, the NCSD and its local Chinese and international partners are presently formulating the guidelines and framework for the launch of the China Water Conservation Fund. The China Water Conservation Fund is dedicated to promote water conservation, strengthen the efficient management of water resources management, and organize and implement application demonstration projects of new water-saving and treatment technologies and distribution within the water sector in China.
