On September 21, the 2nd International Conference/Exhibition on Combustion, Incineration / Pyrolysis, Emission and Climate Change (K-CIPEC) was held in Seoul, Korea.
Representatives from the Ministry of Environment (Korea), Beijing University, Hoseo University, Hanseo University and some other academic and industrial participants attended the conference.
The conference mainly focused on areas of advances in combustion technologies, biomass and waste-to-energy conversion, new and renewable energy, emission control, global warming and greenhouse gases management, environmental health effect and related economic and policy, aiming at promoting academic exchanges between East Asia on those topics and mitigating the climate change. The Clean Air Alliance of China was invited to the meeting.
At the meeting, Dr. Xuan Ling, the senior project manager of Innovation Centre for Clean-air Solutions (Secretariat for Clean Air Alliance of China, CAAC) made a plenary speech entitled "China’s clean air effort-progress, opportunity and future outlook ". He claimed that to restore blue sky, series of air pollution control policies and regulation were revealed from national to provincial and municipal governments in China since 2012. After 5 years’ battle, China’s air quality has obtained significant improvement, and the average PM2.5 concentration has decreased by nearly 35% from 2013 to 2016.
Commissioned by The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), a new technology assessment and demonstration mechanism was developed by Clean Air Alliance of China (CAAC), which will support government to implement its new policy, help local users to select suitable technology to comply with tightened requirement, and to accelerate technology providers’ establishment in China.
