Brussels, 07/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - Drawing from the China Climate Change Framework Loan (CCCFL), signed with China in November 2007, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide a total of €134 million for four operations that will help mitigate the effects of climate change. EIB estimates that up to 830,000 tons of CO2 emissions will be avoided every year when the four projects will be fully operational. The projects are: - the transformation of the district heat system of the city of Jinan (capital of Shandong Province); - the installation of street, building, landscape and lawn lighting with energy efficient lights running on renewable solar energy, in Chaoyang City (Liaoning Province); - the construction of 10 small scale hydropower plants, with a total capacity of 62 MW, in Yichang City (Hubei Province); the construction and operation of a sodium carbonate and ammonium chloride co-product plant, using the CO2 currently vented from the existing fertiliser complex. The EIB says in a press release that “all four projects will result in a significant reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, as well as improve energy efficiency, thereby contributing to the mitigation of global climate change”. (O.L./transl.rt)