As Big Oil and other private-sector companies reconfigure their corporate culture to reflect less adversarial relationships with competitors, government bodies have been quietly pioneering planet-enhancing cooperative projects, in some cases for years. A prime example is the US and China. Since 2010 these two seemingly unlikely partners have been engaged in a landmark programme in collaborative research that's devoted to three clean energy projects focused on managing carbon dioxide emissions and reducing the environmental impact of energy production. No less than three prestige organisations are involved in this joint exercise- two US Department of Energy laboratories and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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