Vice President Joe Biden: Clean Coal an Opportunity for Cooperation Between America and China

The United States and China are the world's largest producers and consumers of energy, and we share the common challenges that fall from that. This creates not only a problem, but great opportunity, great opportunity for common efforts to find clean energy solutions. Secretary Chu likes to say "science is not a zero sum game... science is not a zero sum game." That amply is illustrated by the remarkable cooperation we begin to forge in this area. Let me just mention one example, our joint clean energy research center is funding new approaches to energy efficiency, clean coal, which we both deal with, and clean vehicles. We need to build upon and expand our efforts in this area, and I know we will be having much discussion in the next two days in that area, and it seems to me an area where there is potential for great progress.