Environment

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 […]