About the Nautilus Institute The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development is a small policy-oriented research and advocacy NGO based in Berkeley, California. The Institute promotes international cooperation with the goal of realizing secure and ecologically sustainable societies.
Programs embrace both global and regional issues, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.
The Institute produces reports, organizes workshops, briefs policymakers, constructs quantitative models, provides educational and training services, runs three electronic information services, and occasionally engage in hands-on projects. The International University of Japan itself is a graduate school founded by strong support from the business community. The EET performs research and development leading to better energy technologies and to reduction of adverse energy-related environmental impacts. The Center is implemented jointly by the US and Chinese governments, and by Tulane and Tsinghua Universities. The mission of EETC is to nurture trust and goodwill between the US and China on energy issues, to conduct binational training and education regarding technical and financial issues related to promoting clean energy and environmental technology in China, and to support policy development in China to encourage the responsible use of coal.