Project: Sino German Cooperation on Climate Change - NDC Implementation

In the past two years, the NDCI project has collaborated with Shandong province and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on policy comparison and economic and energy modeling. Following the approval of a project extension, the German and Chinese governments agreed that the NDCI project should work with eight provinces over the next two years. These provinces are Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shandong, and Sichuan.

In order to support financial institutions and real economy sectors to achieve their development goals of a green and low-carbon transition path and to facilitate climate-resilient investment and financing in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement, there is a growing need for local enterprises and financial institutions in Chinese cities to improve their understanding of the international policy framework for carbon accounting and to strengthen their capacity to conduct carbon emission accounting and sustainability information disclosure, especially for regions with international trade links.

Mainstreaming gender practices and gender justice has become a key aspect of project implementation. The German government’s International Climate Initiative (IKI), has recognized gender justice as a central element to address the nexus between climate change, biodiversity loss, and gender. To further strengthen the implementation of gender mainstreaming within IKI Projects in China, speakers from the IKI Office, the research institute Chatham House, and GIZ’S IKI projects held an exchange on its relevance in a Gender Capacity Building Workshop on 29 February 2024. 

Right after COP28, as part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Government, GIZ East Asia hosted a “Networking Workshop for Climate & Environment Cooperation with China” on 14 December 2023. The workshop brought together different actors of the climate and environment community in Beijing to foster networking and exchange.