Introduction

Cleaning up and protecting the world’s ecosystem requires leadership, knowledge and collaborative action.

The China Greentech Initiative (CGTI) is an open source, commercial collaboration of over 80 of the world’s leading technology and service companies, entrepreneurs, investors, NGOs and policy advisors. Through CGTI, these organizations have come together to define greentech market opportunities and solutions, which will contribute to a sustainable China and world.

The China Greentech Report 2009, the first deliverable of the Initiative, provides cross-sectoral analysis of the market and environmental issues facing China, the country’s regulatory response, the available technical solutions that can be used to address these issues and key developmental challenges and opportunities to accelerate greentech market growth. The Report demonstrates that the market potential is huge, that changes in the Chinese Government’s policy are a positive driver, and that China is innovating at the intersection of technology and commercial opportunity.

The Report is distributed free of charge, published under a Creative Commons license, which encourages free distribution and derivative works. This actionable roadmap is the collaborative product of over 200 experts and critically reviews seven major market segments: alternative transportation, clean water, cleaner conventional energy, cleaner industry, the electric power infrastructure, green buildings, and renewable energy.

What differentiates The China Greentech Initiative is that business leaders and policy advisors proactively work together, across the parochial confines of organizations, industries and geographies, to unlock the commercial potential of greentech solutions for China. CGTI Partners share the belief that the opportunity is too big, the problem too urgent, and China too complex for anyone to do it alone.

Rapid economic growth creates the impetus for significant greentech market opportunities

The China Greentech Initiative was co-created by Ellen G. Carberry and Randall S. Hancock, and is produced by MangoStrategy, LLC. The Initiative’s Founding Partners are PricewaterhouseCoopers and the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.