Activities

Photo Credit: GIZ On March 16, 2021 the Strategic Partnerships for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement (SPIPA) held an Expert Dialogue on “Economic assessment of impacts and risk management” in Beijing. This Expert Dialogue was the third in a series of workshops along the themes of “Climate Risks, Impacts and Adaptation”. The workshop was […]

The Climate Risk and Resilience (CRR) project aims to empower local pilot cities with an Integrated Climate Risk Management (ICRM) framework and an Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) approach to identify and assess climate hazards, exposures, and vulnerabilities. The project ensures knowledge transfer and experience sharing among adaptation and city resilience projects, similar studies, international […]

On November 17, 2020, with the support from GIZ, Aii hosted the Fashion Industry Green Forum & 2020 CbD Award Ceremony. It was the first time that the CbD award event was held online. There were 71 attendees in total, including 37 representatives from 23 suppliers (manufacturers, traders), 22 representatives from 12 global brands and […]

On November 17th, 2020, the first class of the training course “Climate Protection Planning Management-Urban Response to Climate Change” was held at the Nanjing Tech University (NTU). This training was commissioned by the GIZ Project “Support Jiangsu Low-Carbon Development” to be developed by the School of Urban Planning, NTU. The first class was taught by […]

Photo Credit: GIZ On November 7th, 2020, the final approval status meeting for the GIZ Project “Plus Energy Building and Community Development Research” was held in Shanghai. Ms. Hu Qiying, director of Jiangsu Low-Carbon Development Project, Mr. Hu Ning, technical advisor, and Mr. Liu Tong, director of the Sino-German Urbanization Partnership Project attended the meeting. […]

Photo Credit: GIZ Mobility-as-a-Service MaaS is taking up momentum in China. The seamless integration of public transport and new mobility services such as ride-hailing or smart bike-sharing is high on the agenda of policy-makers in China and seen as an important key to make transport – accounting for about 11 percent of China’s total CO2 […]

Photo Credit: GIZ China In order to discuss the future of sustainable transport and mobility in Beijing, the Beijing Transport Institute BTI, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Agora Verkehrswende jointly initiated the workshop series “The Beijing Dialogue –– Future Urban Transport & Mobility”. The Beijing Dialogue comprises a series of three workshops […]

In recent years, freight volume in China has been increasing on average by almost 15 percent annually. The total freight volume in 2019 was 47 billion tons and increased nearly 9-fold compared to 5.3 billion tons in 1990. In particular, growing e-commerce activities and food and parcel deliveries have entailed a massive increase of delivery […]

In cooperation with the Network for Architecture Exchange (NAX), an initiative of the Federal Chamber of German Architects (BAK), the Sino-German Urbanisation Partnership created a video on “Urban renewal – the role and potential of architecture”. The video format has been chosen as a replacement for the BAK expert exchange on sustainable architecture in China […]

To inform the “Sino-German Cooperation on Climate Change – NDC Implementation” GIZ commissioned international research institutes to conduct a series of studies on the topics of decarbonization and adaptation in the EU, Germany and China. Altogether five publications have been prepared by Climate Analytics, the NewClimate Insitute and Ricardo Energy & Environment. The industrial sector […]