Chinese Co-chair of the Task Force is former Vice Minister of SEPA Ms. Wang Jirong and International Co-chair is Mr. Brendan Gillespie from OECD. This Task Force aims at presenting policy recommendations to the Chinese Government about policy innovations and institutional arrangements towards successful realization of emissions reduction target during the 11th Five-Year Plan period. At the same time, it will make projections to environmental protection target during the 12th Five-Year Plan period. The findings of the Task Force will provide direct technical support to the Chinese Government in meeting the emission reduction target during the 11th Five-Year Plan period. In addition, it will present its research findings at the First AGM of CCICED Phase IV.

The Task Force (TF) held its inauguration meeting in Beijing on April 25, 2007. Chinese Co-chair Ms. Wang Jirong as well as more than 20 Chinese experts and consultants attended the meeting. The international experts of the TF presented their written proposal on the carrying out of the research. The meeting discussed in detail the methodology, major issues, main case studies, implementation program and work division of the research activities. The meeting decided that the TF would carry out policy studies on whole-process emission reduction mechanism focusing on four aspects of "energy saving, technical progress, pollution control project, supervision and administration".

On April 30, the TF held a technical group meeting that discussed the framework of the general report and the focuses of each chapter. Participants also identified the activities of the next stage and time schedule, which centering on the reduction of major pollutants and had active and in-depth discussions on issues include the emissions control target during the 12th Five-Year Plan period.