National Standard (Draft):The Principles and Requirements of Greenhouse Gas Emission Assessment for Transportation Fuel Life Cycle Before Usage Stage (Submitted for approval from the Standardization Administration of China) (December 2010 / Clean Transportation Program)

This is the first recommended standard in the “Low Carbon Fuel Standards Series” promoted by iCET, which standardizes the evaluation of GHG emission from each stage of a fuel's lifecycle before it is used. The standard is to be used by feedstock producers, fuel conversion enterprises, fuel marketers and other stakeholders, and covers biomass-based fuels, coal-based fuels, petroleum-based fuels, etc. The standard is to be used by feedstock producers, fuel conversion enterprises, fuel marketers and other stakeholders, and covers biomass-based fuels, coal-based fuels, petroleum-based fuels, etc.  This standard was jointly drafted by iCET and a National Environmental Standardization Technical Committee made up of experts from the China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS), Tsinghua University, the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the China Academy of Sciences, the Safety and Environment Technology Research Center of the China National Petroleum Company, the China Coal Science Research Institute, and COFCO Co. Ltd., and is now in the national standards approval process at the Standardization Administration of China.