China and the US have significant potential to cooperate on affordable clean energy technologies and ensure its wide adoption going forward, a leading think-tank expert told China Daily yesterday.

Dennis Bracy, chief executive officer of the US-China Clean Energy Forum, said: "Currently, some of the highly advanced technologies, such as CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) are expensive for any country, not just for China."

"To jointly develop the CCS technology, we recommend that each nation select three projects in their country using different burning, carbon capture and sequestration technologies and do them in a coordinated way by sharing information and research results."