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The Third Conference of the National Council on the Environment for Sustainable Development, held on 2009 at Ouagadougou, recommended that there should be limits on the age of vehicles and specifically ten years for private cars, 12 years for vehicles for the transport of persons, and 15 years for vehicles for the transport of goods

EU cooperation in Burkina Faso under the 10th European Development Fund focuses, inter alia, on promoting renewable energy sources

14% of the total 924.3 billion Yuan public investment by the central government for year 2009 were devoted to post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction after the Wenchuan earthquake occurred on 12 May 2008 in Sichuan Province which caused massive damage to the ecological environment

16% of the total 924.3 billion Yuan public investment by the central government for year 2009 were devoted to economic restructuring, energy-conservation, emission-reduction and ecological improvement

Production capacities with high energy consumption, serious environmental pollution or backward technology are being progressively shut down as set out in the 11th Five Year Plan (2006-2010)

Pursuant to the 2007 General Work Plan for Saving Energy and Reducing Emissions, the Chinese Government has intensified use and promotion of energy-saving products and technologies, implementation of key energy conservation projects, development of clean energy and tighter environmental standards, pollution prevention and control and ecological conservation

Chinese Government released the system of indices for clean production assessment in 11 industries in 2009

The percentage of the total capacity of thermal power generating units equipped with desulphurization facilities reached 72% in 2009

From 2006 to 2009, China's energy consumption per unit of GDP decreased by 14.38%

From 2006 to 2009, China's chemical oxygen demand and sulphur dioxide emissions reduced by 9.66% and 13.14% respectively