Environment

As a follow-up of the Sino-German Workshop on Green COP held on  October 28, 2019, the Environmental Partnership Project organised a virtual seminar on the preparation of a sustainable COP for the members of the Chinese Committee for the preparation of the CBD COP-15 on the 9th of March. The opening speech from German side […]

Dr. Christian Stärz, Director of the project Sino-German Environmental Partnership II, was nominated by the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) to become the International Expert of the CCICED Special Policy Study (SPS) “Major Green Technology Innovation and Implementation Mechanisms”. Co-Team Leads of this SPS working group are Prof. Dirk Messner, President of the […]

The “Seminar on the Management of Protected Areas” took place on December 15th, 2020. It was co-hosted by the German Embassy in Beijing and the Sino-German Environmental Partnership Project. The seminar was opened by Mr. Hendrik Barkeling (Head of Economic Department, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the Federal Republic of German in Beijing). In total there […]

From December 01st-03rd, an online training series on the management of soil pollution was successfully co-organized by the Sino-German Environmental Partnership Project (SGEP) and the Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center (FECO) of China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE). Participants were mainly policymakers and researchers working on soil pollution prevention and control, coming from the Department […]

The official opening ceremony of the China-Africa Environmental Cooperation Center took place on November 24th in Beijing under the title “Inauguration of China-Africa Environmental Cooperation Center”. MEE Minister HUANG Runqiu and Assistant Minister of MFA DENG Li attended the event. Vice Minister of MEE Zhao Yingmin moderated the event. At the invitation of FECO, the […]

Photo Credit: CCICED In October and November, most Special Policy Study (SPS) working groups of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) have started their new phases and convened inception meetings. The Sino-German Environmental Partnership project (SGEP) participated in the inception meetings of the following SPS with German participation: SPS Post […]

On 27 May, 2020, a video conference was organized between the German Environment Agency (UBA), GIZ (SGEP), the Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center (FECO) of China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) and the China Solid Waste and Chemical Management Center of MEE. The participants agreed to launch a joint research project focusing on the environmental […]

As part of the longstanding Sino-German cooperation on ecolabelling and sustainable consumption and production, a virtual workshop was facilitated by GIZ (SGEP) on 8 May, 2020. Participants included Dr. Ulf Jaeckel from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany (BMU), Dr. Johanna Wurbs from the […]

The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development’s (CCICED) 2nd Chief Advisors and Secretariat Joint Working Meeting (Q2 CHAD Meeting) was held via two virtual conference sessions on April 29 and 30, 2020. The session on 29 April focused on an update to the chief advisors regarding the Special Policy Study (SPS) research […]

Mr. Jaeckel (front row, third from left) at SPS meeting on 17 January 2020 in Beijing. Source: CCICED German experts recently joined two additional Special Policy Study (SPS) research groups of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED). Mr Stephan Contius, Head of Division IK I 2 in the German Federal […]

This strategic dialogue took place on 30-31 October in Beijing, under this year’s guiding theme ‘Towards 2030: Accelerating change through innovation for greener development’. 290 representatives from Chinese and German ministries, businesses, academia and civil society organisations came together to discuss future directions of sustainable development. China’s Vice Minister for the Environment, Zhao Yingmin, and […]

The SGEP Project organised a study tour from 17-21 September for a high-level Chinese government delegation to Germany on the topic of environmental governance and environmental law enforcement. The delegation was led by Mr Chen Chunjiang, the Deputy Chief Inspector of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the […]

A study tour focusing on soil monitoring and soil contamination prevention was organized by the SGEP project from May 05-11, with destinations in Germany and Switzerland. The Chinese delegation was led by Mr. Li Minglu, Division Director from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) Soil Ecology and Environment Department.

A China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) Special Policy Study (SPS) team that works on “Goals and Pathways for Environmental Improvement to 2035” conducted a study tour to UK and Germany from March 20-27. The delegation included Chinese and international experts.

A workshop focusing on the topic of Soil Survey was organized by the Sino-German Environmental Partnership and the Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (FECO) of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE). It took place on November 5th, 2018 and was a follow-up activity to a previous workshop in June 2018. Dr. Bernd Bussian, environmental consultant […]