The Biodiversity, Climate and Environment (BCE) Group operates in one of the four priority areas of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) China. The group currently manages seven projects via three technical teams (Climate Policy, Carbon Markets & Climate Finance, Biodiversity & Environment Protection).The projects summarised within this group are a clear recognition that supporting China in developing and implementing effective climate and environmental policies and cooperating with the country in the international climate governance system is critical to protect global public goods.
In line with China’s role as an emerging economy and crucial player in international climate and biodiversity protection efforts, the projects take a cooperation approach that emphasises exchange and mutual learning. Given the focus of the BCE Group, the ministries leading the cooperation process are the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) from the German side and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) from the Chinese side. The basis for cooperation is the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Combatting Climate Change and the annual meeting of the Sino-German Working Group on Environment and Climate Change during which specific cooperation projects are launched.
Beyond promoting dialogue between the relevant ministries on both sides, GIZ is also assisting China in developing renewable energies and enhancing energy efficiency in industry and buildings. Other projects focus on provincial-level low-carbon development strategies, the introduction of the Chinese national emissions trading system and the implementation of the country’s nationally determined contributions (NDC).
Sino-German Environmental Partnership participates in the first phase of CBD COP 15, which will take place in Kunming from 11 to 15 October 2021.
On 30 September, the Chinese and German experts of the four working groups of the Sino-German Track-2-Dialogue (T2D) came together virtually to present the results of their collaboration at the third Steering Committee Meeting of the Sino-German Track-2-Dialogue.
The workshop on the Chinese national adaptation strategy was hosted on 28 September and connected experts from the German think tank Climate Analytics and the Chinese National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC).
GIZ and the research team of Jiangsu Zhiqiaotong Engineering Co. organized the launch ceremony for a research project on Green Logistics Development and Green Packaging Application of Nanjing Intra-city Express Service on 16 September.
Guided by the theme “For Nature and Humanity: Building a Community of Life Together” the CCICED Annual General Meeting 2021 took place from 7 to 10 September.
The new Climate Transparency report was the main topic of the Steering Committee Meeting.
Host country China and the Secretariat of the CBD announced dates for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity to be convened in two parts in Kunming, China.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) issue the 14th Five-Year Plan of Action for the Control of Plastic Pollution.
The Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Ecological Protection show that the ecological protection compensation system is an important means of implementing the rights and responsibilities of ecological protection.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) of the People’s Republic of China issued the Action Plan for Plastic Pollution Control of the 14th Five-Year Plan.
The leading group to establish the carbon emission accounting system will be headed by the Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection of NDRC and the National Bureau of Statistics.
The amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which was first signed in October 2016 and regulates the phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons, has become effective in China as of 15 September 2021.
