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  • Feb.2011: Media Report : Pilots benefit from CPSUC project
  • February 2011: Successful CPSUC Final Conference in Hohhot, China
  • February 2011: All 13 Centers are ready to go and all of them are connected! —Final Workshop and Network Meeting of Cleaner Production Centers in China
  • September 2010: Follow-up CP campaigning plans in China
  • May 2010: Chinese CP experts on study tour to Europe
  • April 2010: CPSUC - Draft Cleaner Production Campaigns ready
  • March 2010: CPSUC project enters final year 3
  • January 2010: Workshop on designing of Cleaner Production Campaigns in China
  • November 2009: Cleaner Production project in the Croatian hospitality industry concluded successfully
  • September 2009: EEP project Coal-to-Oil final conference in Beijing
  • August 2009: Energy Benchmarking project final conference in Beijing
  • March 2009 : Rational Energy Utilization in China ’s Industrial Kilns
  • February 2009 : First round of Energy Benchmarking training with energy service providers hold in Beijing
  • January 2009 : New project with Croatia on Cleaner Production in the Hospitality Industry started
  • December 2008 : Kick-off meeting on Clean Coal to Oil
  • October 2008 : CAI managing director Gerhard Weihs fastens ties with China and moves his residence to Beijing
  • September 2008 : Seminars on Energy efficient buildings in India
  • September 2008 : Promotion of Benchmarking in Energy Intensive Industries in China
  • August 2008 : ESCO Project in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia
  • July 2008 : Cleaner Production workshop in Kunming, Yunnan Province, PR China
  • May 2008 : Green Certificate for Mongolian Enterprises
  • April 2008 : Successful CPSUC Kick-off meeting in Beijing
  • March 2008 : ECOPROFIT Cluster established in Ulan Bator
  • January 2008 : CPSUC-Contract signed with EC
  • December 2007 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL Moves Headquarter to First Address in the Very Centre of Vienna
  • November 2007 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL Teams up with Several Chinese Partners for three Projects under the EU-China Energy and Environment Programme (EEP)
  • October 2007 : Contract Negotions on New Project of CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL in China started
  • September 2007 : Triple A and Double B Score for CENTRIC's CO2 Manager Project in China
  • July 2007 : Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control in Turkey, India and China – BAT for Chinese textile and leather industry
  • June 2007 : EU experts visit Mongolian CP companies
  • May 2007 : Croation CP trainees were invited to workshops in Ireland, Austria and Germany
  • April 2007 : CAI experts on Post-Tsunami-'Relive' mission in India
  • April 2007 : ECOPROFIT Mongolia - first annual interim review
  • March 2007 : TEMPUS Cleaner Production Center Rijeka - Instruction workshop
  • March 2007 : CAI could present impressive results of the CO2 managers China project at the final conference in Beijing
  • February 2007 : CAI managing director presents EIUP results in Brussels
    • Map of the ASEAN region.
    • Summary - Feasibility study for the Implementation of Energy Integrated Urban Planning (EIUP) and the applicability of European Approaches.
    • The EIUP project partnership.
    • Summary of the speech of CAI manager Weihs in Brussels on EIUP.
    • Summary - Feasibility study for distributed generation (DG) and renewable energy portfolio (REP) of a distribution utility: case study in the Philippines.
    • Summary - Capacity Building for Calaca, Batangas Local Governments Unit (LGU), Public Market Vendors and Households to Operate a Biogas Facility: Learning from European and ASEAN/Thai Best Practices.
  • February 2007 : CAI joins energy efficiency workshop of State Agencies in Chandigarh, India
  • January 2007 : Project partners meet in Ireland
  • December 2006 : EU team invited Croation experts to interviews and selected candidates for the Cleaner Production Center in Rijeka
  • December 2006 : CAI managing director assists CDM-CERS trading workshop in Beijing
  • September 2006 : Chinese CO2 experts and EU team at Great Wall in Ningxia
  • September 2006 : First company workshop on Cleaner Production in Mongolia
  • August 2006 : Final workshops and conferences of EC-ASEAN Energy Facility projects in the Philippines
  • July 2006 : Instruction training for Mongolian Cleaner Production experts in Ulan Bator
  • June 2006 : CAI establishs project office in Beijing
  • May 2006 : Chinese CO2 managers are invited by CAI to visit Europe on CDM purposes
  • April 2006 : CAI starts CP project with the Mongolian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • March 2006 : Regional Dissemination Conference in Bangkok to present results of EIUP
  • March 2006 : CAI experts meet Chinese CO2 managers for training in Hangzhou
  • February 2006 : EIUP final visits to ASEAN host cities
  • December 2005 : EIUP expert teams visit Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines the third time
  • September 2005 : Certificates for Chinese CP foundries issued in Tianjin - Speech by CAI managing director Gerhard Weihs
  • August 2005 : Progress in energy integrated urban planning - CAI experts visit again Vietnam, Philippines and Laos
  • July 2005 : CAI invited ASEAN experts visiting Denmark, Gernany and Austria
  • June 2005 : Integrated Southern Africa Business Advisory (INSABA)
  • May 2005 : Visit to most advanced Clean Energy Action demonstration projects in China
  • May 2005 : Kick-off meeting to start CO2 manager project in China
  • April 2005 : Kick-off-meeting of a new project in the Philippines within the framework of the EC-ASEAN Energy Facility Programme
  • March 2005 : After succesful application CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL signed new contract with EC on CO2 Management in China
  • February 2005 : International experts under leadership of CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL visited Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines
  • January 2005 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL experts visit China and give advice on Cleaner Production
  • November/December 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL has set new methodological standards for environment and energy planning in year 2004
    • more info.
  • October 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL held regional workshop in Bangkok to introduce energy and environment integrated urban planning to ASEAN cities
    • more info.
  • September/October 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL's experts coach Chinese foundries on site in implementing Cleaner Production
  • August 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL invites Chinese municipalties to CDM cooperation
  • August 2004 : Visit to EU delegetion in China to report about project progress
  • July 2004 : Successful project kick-off in Jakarta
  • April 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL signed first contract with ASEAN CENTRE OF ENERGY in Jakarta, Indonesia
  • May 2004 : Appointment of CAI managing director Gerhard Weihs to Chinese consultancy business
  • February 2004 : New project within the framework of the EC ASEAN Energy Facility Programme
  • January 2004 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL was proposed by the Austrian government to the European Union as Austrian candidate for the International Co-operation Award for Sustainable Development
  • Dezember 2003 : CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL applied successfully for a new ASIA-INVEST project with China
  • October 2003 : SYNERGY Project completed successfully
  • September 19, 2003 : Governmental Chief Engineers from China visited Klagenfurt
  • January 14, 2003 : Indian companies are the first in Asia to recieve ECOPROFIT certificate

December 2008 : Kick-off meeting on Clean Coal to Oil

The EU-China Energy and Environment Programme (EEP) hold a kick-off meeting on the 22nd of December 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Sun Palace in Beijing to officially launch the EU-China project: Feasibility Study - Best Options and Policy Framework for Conservation and Substitution of Oil by Clean Coal Technologies. The meeting was attended by officials from NDRC, EU and other colleagues from relevant organizations and industries.

The specific objective of the project is to investigate – by means of a feasibility study, covering operational, economical, technical, social and environmental aspects of sustainability – the option for China, to achieve a substitution of petroleum oil through enhanced use and development of “clean-coal-to-oil” technologies and projects. The project seeks to investigate the options for the People’s Republic of China to minimize its dependence on imported oil and oil products.

The feasibility study is undertaken by the China Coal Information Institute and CENTRIC AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL.

Based on the analysis of current coal to oil technologies in China and abroad, evaluation criteria and an evaluation model are developed and desktop and on site investigations and research in China and in Europe should provide the best options and recommendations for a policy framework.

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