What is this 予以 doing in my sentence? From the meanings I find for '予以 = give, grant' I can't really see what it is doing here. Maybe the Chinese is '予以推进 = give/produce advancement'， but 予以 may also mean 'impose' I believe. Maybe the sense is 'force advancement'??

李记者：您认为我国在发展“低碳经济“方面，可能会采取哪些政策措施予以推进。
吴先生： 我国在推进“低碳经济”时，。。。

Which policy/political measures do you think it is possible to adopt to advance China's  'low carbon economy'?

Edit：Just got a suggestion: Can I replace '予以‘ with '帮助‘？

Edit again:

What is not clear to me from your comments is: Is 予以 a particle or a word with meaning, or both at  the same time? In wpt's example sentence below, I see no unavoidable reason to interpret '表扬‘ as a verb. It can equally be considered a noun and  予以 just means give. Why invoke special properties for 予以？

有特殊貢獻者應予以表揚
have special contributors should give praise.
There are special contributors (who we) should give praise to.
予以 is a conjunction-like thing that is something like English "as a means of", "for purposes of", and is often used in officialese to keep things comfortably vague. Use it when you are writing a report to your boss.

Postscript:

My answer works when 予以 occurs between two verb phrases.  I would call the phrases I used 'functional equivalents', not literal translations.  

As Shawn's answer notes, 予以 sometimes occurs between noun phrase and verb. In this case, you will have to translate a different way. Here is another example:


有特殊貢獻者應予以表揚
Those who have made special contributions should be recognized.


The grammar used here is literary Chinese, and the original meaning of 予以 as 'give + indirect obj marker' is very clear.  The subject is the direct object, hence in English, the whole thing is passive. Many native speakers don't really know how to use this type of literary construction.