During the consultations, Alexander Bedritsky and Xie Zhenhua reviewed practical cooperation between Russia and China in the sphere of economic and social adaptation to climate change, as well as the upcoming 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 7th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, to be held in November and December 2011 in South Africa.
On July 1, 2011 the delegation from the People’s Republic of China visited a biogas plant in the Kaluga Region and was informed about the Russian technology of producing electric and thermal energy from biofuels.