Promoting Climate Dialogues
In the field of bilateral high-level political cooperation, the project supports the annual Sino-German Environment and Climate Change Working Group meeting, in which government officials hold exchanges on international and domestic climate policy development and areas of existing and potential future bilateral cooperation within the framework of the IKI. Furthermore, the Sino-German Track-2-Dialogue is held among leading scientists and experts from the institutions tasked with climate change policy in each country. Across six working groups, the dialogue addresses many of the most pressing issues in the field of climate policy and connected fields, such as UNFCCC negotiations, accounting and monitoring, carbon sinks, and more.
Through these activities, GIZ is helping to further mutual understanding between both countries on key issues, informing and strengthening official bilateral engagement, and delivering constructive bilateral impact on the multilateral climate policy process, for instance by hosting jointly organized UNFCCC COP side-events. The outputs of this international scientific collaboration are in-depth expert advice and policy recommendations for the domestic implementation of the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement.