U.S. – China Strategic and Economic Dialogue V
The fifth round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue was held in Washington, D.C., July 10-11, 2013. Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew were joined by their Chinese co-chairs, Vice Premier Wang Yang and State Councilor Yang Jiechi for two days of talks on collaboration in the energy, climate, and other sectors. Building off of the commitments from last year’s SED, the two countries agreed to continue strengthening collaboration in the clean cooking and heating area:
“Clean Cookstoves: As partners of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and pursuant to the corresponding National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)-United Nations Foundation (UNF) MOU signed in April 2013, the two sides decided to strengthen their cooperation in this area. To support the Alliance’s mission and reach its ambitious goals for large-scale global adoption of clean stoves and fuels for cooking and heating, China will further enhance its domestic efforts to adopt clean cookstoves and fuels under its current Five-Year Plan and support enterprises and institutes to develop safe, efficient, and clean products and technologies. The United States will collaborate with China via the Alliance to provide direct technical support to these activities. The two sides underline the importance of coordinating cookstoves efforts across relevant agencies on a broad set of topics and decided to discuss opportunities to coordinate research on clean cookstoves.”