On May 28th, the National Energy Agency published the official tendering policy for wind and solar PV. Tendering to determine subsidy amounts serves to ensure that subsidies are only as high as necessary to enable a specific project, thus increasing overall efficiency of the subsidy system and incentivizing technology cost
GIZ’s Supporting Jiangsu Low Carbon Development project held a parallel event at the 12th Jiangsu International Green Building Conference. The theme of the event was Plus-Energy Building and Plus-Energy City Quarter. The aim was to promote policy development and cooperation in demonstration projects related to ‘Plus-Energy’. A signing ceremony was
August 30th – Bejing – Li Gao, Department Director of Climate Change, and Liu Youbin, Spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and the Environment’s (MEE), spoke at the monthly ministerial press conference. They praised how the creation of the MEE has streamlined the governance and monitoring of climate change
April 19-20, 2019, guided by Jiangsu Province Construction Industry Modernization and Innovation Alliance (JCMA), sponsored by prefabricated construction network and Nantong Sanjian, jointly supported by Jiangsu Provincial Housing and Housing Industry Housing Industry Promotion Center, China Architecture Association, German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ), German Federal Association of Building Systems and
On June 19, 2019, the 7th National Low Carbon Day with the theme of “Low Carbon and Clean Air”, Jiangsu Provincial Government held the press conference for Jiangsu Low Carbon Development Report 2017-2018. This annual report has been published since 2012, and GIZ Jiangsu Project supported the first publication. The
The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province from June 2nd to 4th with the theme “A New Era: Towards a New World of Green Prosperity”. At the AGM, the Special Policy Study (SPS) delegates reported
June 19, 2019 – The city of Tianjin will auction 2 million CO2 allowances on June 27. The auction will only be open to companies that finished 2018 with a deficit of carbon permits and companies cannot purchase more allowances than required to fulfill their 2018 compliance obligation. Despite the
The Sino-German Climate Partnership’s energy component has finalized publications on integrated energy concepts, which were developed by Chinese and German experts for the cities of Dunhuang (Gansu Province), Xintai (Shandong Province) and Jiaxing-Xiuzhou (Zhejiang Province) in the previous project phase. The concepts identified and analyzed each city’s specific geographic characteristics
May 27, 2019 – The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) issued a notice on the process of producing a list of power plants (incl. captive power plants) that will be included in the national ETS. The list is a major step towards the creation of a national emissions trading
