Wyoming and Shanxi Leaders meet
June 2015, Cheyenne, WY
Shanxi in China and Wyoming in the U.S. are their countries’ largest coal-producing provinces/states, accounting for 17.7% of the world’s total coal production. So when the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs (JHCGA) brought Governor Li of Shanxi and Governor Mead of Wyoming together in June 2015 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, there were large issues at stake relating to the future of coal – the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. Can carbon dioxide be separated from the coal combustion waste stream and utilized and/or stored on a cost-effective basis? What are some of the other uses besides power generation for which coal can be utilized, and how can this be done in a way which reduces carbon dioxide emissions? Can carbon dioxide itself be converted into other products and processes?
Prior to meeting with Governor Mead, Governor Li toured advanced coal combustion and conversion facilities at the Western Research Institute in Laramie and heard presentations on related research and development activities at the University of Wyoming. The meeting with Governor Mead, which included Republican and Democratic leaders of the state legislature, and a senior representative from the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington D.C., reviewed progress on plans for coal conversion, carbon dioxide utilization, and strategies for energy conservation and emissions reduction relating to coal.
The two sides agreed to explore further avenues of cooperation, including academic and research collaboration and the establishment of formal ties, such as a “brother relationship,” as Governor Li put it. Governor Li invited JHCGA and other representatives from Wyoming to speak at and participate in Shanxi’s low-carbon development forum in September 2015. Governor Li invited JHCGA to establish an office in Shanxi’s new “innovation city,” located in the provincial capital of Taiyuan.
JHCGA will continue to promote this ongoing critically important global partnership between Shanxi Province and Wyoming.
Read about this visit and coal, climate change, China, and Obama here:
山西在中国和怀俄明州在美国是他们国家的最大的煤炭生产大省/州，占世界煤炭生产总量的17.7 ％。因此，当在JHCGA怀俄明州夏延带来山西和怀俄明州的州长米德省长李一起在2015年6月，是与煤炭的未来大重大的问题 - 最主要的碳密集型矿物燃料。可以二氧化碳从煤燃烧废物流中分离和利用和/或存储在具有成本效益的依据吗？什么是一些除了发电的其他用途，其中煤炭可利用的，以及如何能在某种程度上减少二氧化碳的排放这样做吗？二氧化碳本身可以被转化成其它产品和工艺？
前州长米德会议上，省长参观了先进的煤燃烧和转化设施的西部研究所拉勒米，并听取了关于相关的研究和开发活动在演讲怀俄明大学。州长米德，其中包括共和党和立邦的民主党领导人会议上，审议了计划煤转化，二氧化碳的利用，及与煤节能减排战略的进展。
双方同意探讨进一步合作的途径，包括学术和研究合作，并建立正式关系，诸如“兄弟关系”，作为省长李放它。省长邀请JHCGA和其他代表从怀俄明州的讲话在参与山西的低碳发展论坛于2015年九月省长李邀请JHCGA建立位于太原市省会办事处在山西的新的“创新型城市”。
JHCGA将继续推动并为此持续，全球伙伴关系仍然感谢山西和怀俄明州。