Here's the lowdown from Kristi Heim at the Seattle Times:
As part of the US-China Strategic Economic Diaglogue, officials from the U.S.
Treasury, Commerce, Energy and State Departments and the Environmental
Protection Agency met privately in Gig Harbor with Chinese representatives from
the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC); Ministry of Foreign
Affairs; Ministry of Science and Technology; State Environment Protection
Administration; and the Ministry of Finance to discuss cooperation on energy and
the environment.
They agreed to form the U.S.-China Clean Energy Forum,
committing to meetings two or three times per year in Seattle and Beijing for
the next several years. American members include former U.S. Trade
Representatives Carla Hills and Mickey Kantor.
The group said it will
identify and implement projects in clean energy and alternative fuels and
recommend solutions to the two governments to address trade, legal and financial
barriers.
One of the key legal questions is how to protect the
intellectual property of technology companies like Itron.
The UW signed an agreement with the Energy Research Institute "to begin
to collaborate on areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy and environmental
protection by looking at possibilities for joint research and joint training
programs," said Phyllis M. Wise, UW provost and executive vice president.
The effort will start with meetings and workshops between UW faculty and
researchers and their counterparts at the Chinese institute, eventually leading
to joint studies and joint training programs, she said.
At the national
level, the U.S., China energy talks will begin to address intellectual property,
export regulations and financing when they resume in China later this spring, a
U.S. Treasury Department spokeswoman said.
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