The 12th meeting of the Sino-German Working Group on Environment and Climate Change (SGWG) was held virtually on 27 April 2023.
Eleven ministries jointly issued the guideline on building a holistic standard system to achieve China’s carbon peaking and neutrality goals. The standard system contains four
On 6 April 2023, GIZ and the World Resources Institute (WRI) successfully co-organized the subforum on International Experience and Chinese Practices as part of the 2023 China International Forum on Climate Investment and Finance. The subforum included two sessions: Climate Investment and Financing for Carbon Neutrality: Ambitious Strategy, Market Practices, and Product Innovation and Incentivize Investment for Climate Change Adaptation: Climate Risk Management and Climate Resilient Urban Infrastructure Development. Jiang Zhaoli, Deputy Director General of the Department of Climate Change of Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE-DCC), Thorsten Giehler, Region Director of GIZ East Asia, and Fang Li, Chief Representative of WRI China, delivered opening speeches for the forum.
On 24 February 2023, the 5th Steering Committee Meeting of the Sino-German Track II Dialogue (T2D) on Climate Change and Sustainable Development was successfully held online. Organised by GIZ, the meeting was led by the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC) in China and the German Environment Agency (UBA).
On 24 February 2023, a capacity-building workshop on climate finance was held successfully in Chengdu of Sichuan Province under the guidance of the provincial Department of Ecology and Environment of Sichuan and the People´s Bank of China (PBoC) Chengdu Branch.
According to the National Energy Administration’s (NEA) press conference on 13 February and the 2022 China social economy statistic data recently released by National Bureau
The 27th Conference of the Parties was held from November 6 – 20 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. China supported the inclusion of loss and damage on the conference’s agenda culminating in the establishment of an historic loss and damage fund.
The newly released Notice clarifies the definition of “energy used as raw material” in previous government documents.
China approved 23 coal power projects in September 2022. The new approvals represent a significant increase compared to 2021 approvals, as China looks back on a period of power shortages and seeks to strengthen supply security through coal, but the new projects also are better adjusted to operate jointly with renewables.
