Sino-German Environmental Partnership Phase III

Sino-German Environmental Partnership Phase III
by TUEWAS|May 15, 2023

Sino-German Environmental Partnership Phase III

 Project website

Objectives

Environmental protection and nature conservation measures in China are planned and implemented more effectively.

Description

Economic growth in China has slowed and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing. In this context, China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) aims to achieve qualitative economic growth and balance this with environment protection. The wording by the Chinese Government for this is “Green Development that is in harmony with both mankind and nature”. Yet, that balancing seems to incline somewhat more towards economic growth, in order to foster economic rebound after the zero-Covid policy.

The Chinese Government has already made considerable efforts to reverse the damage caused by environmental degradation over the past few decades, in particular in the fields of improving air quality, expanding protected areas and forest cover, and renewable energy. However, a number of measures do not fully translate into action on the ground, such as biodiversity protection in parts of the designated areas or plastic pollution, including marine litter. This can be attributed to an unclear structure, which of the various ministries and departments bear responsibility for specific policies and measures. Added to this is an inefficient institutional set-up, which causes sluggish implementation of the stated environmental and nature conservation goals.

Approach/Field of intervention

The project strengthens the capacities of China’s environmental protection and nature conservation authorities. It also advises relevant decision-makers, experts as well as managers, and promotes research, technical cooperation and experience-sharing in the following priority action areas:

  • Support for the environmental policy dialogue between the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) of the People’s Republic of China. In particular, the project supports exchanges in the framework of the Sino-German government consultations, the Sino-German Environment Forum and events of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED);
  • Environmental protection, aimed primarily at controlling and preventing soil, air and water pollution;
  • Sustainable production and consumption with a focus on waste management and circular economy;
  • Biodiversity protection with a focus on protected area management, ecosystem restoration and the biodiversity-climate nexus.

Targeted beneficiaries

The central target group of the project includes key actors who are significantly involved in shaping a resource-conserving, climate-friendly, inclusive and sustainable environmental and nature conservation policy:

  • Policymakers in the environmental and nature conservation governance system in China (MEE, FECO, Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP), Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIES), Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy (PRCEE)), as well as experts and officials at the national, provincial and local levels in China;
  • Actors in public and private sectors who plan and implement new policies (e.g. representatives of line ministries, planning institutes);
  • Businesses, industry associations and civil society as well as NGOs (whenever possible), which are to be given a stronger role in shaping environmental policy and its implementation in the future;
  • Governmental and private think tanks, training institutions, scientific institutes and universities involved in the development of environmental laws, administrative regulations and guidelines;
  • Members and stakeholders of the CCICED and the CCICED Secretariat.
COUNTRY

China

DURATION

01 May 2022 - 30 April 2027

Commission Agency

 BMUV

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Energising Mobility and Transport in China Mobility and fuel strategy as a contribution to the traffic transition in China – pilot in the Jing-Jin-Ji region
by TUEWAS|July 26, 2021

Energising Mobility and Transport in China Mobility and fuel strategy as a contribution to the traffic transition in China – pilot in the Jing-Jin-Ji region

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COUNTRY

China

DURATION

01 January 2017 - 31 July 2019

Commission Agency

 BMVI

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Rethinking Plastics – Circular Economy Solution to Marine Litter
by TUEWAS|February 24, 2021

Rethinking Plastics – Circular Economy Solution to Marine Litter

 Rethinking Plastics (beatplasticpollution.eu)

Objectives

Plastic waste in the oceans is reduced through promoting a circular economy for plastics in East and South-East Asia.

Description

The ‘Rethinking Plastics – Circular Economy Solutions to Marine Litter’ project supports a transition towards a circular economy for plastics in seven countries in East and South East Asia with the objective to reduce plastic waste leakage into the sea. In a circular economy, resources are used and managed in a more efficient and sustainable manner through the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle. The project works, amongst others, in the areas of plastic waste management, sustainable consumption and production of plastics as well as the reduction of litter from sea-based sources. With these efforts, the project contributes to strengthening the cooperation between the EU and the partner countries China, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in the areas of circular economy, plastic waste management and marine litter reduction. It is funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Expertise France.

More information: https://beatplasticpollution.eu/rethinking-plastics/

Approach/Field of intervention

The project provides support and advice to its political partners and implements activities in the following areas:

  • Circular Economy solutions to reduce marine plastic litter
  • Management of plastic waste along the waste hierarchy, including extended producer responsibility and deposit return schemes for packaging and plastic products;
  • Sustainable consumption and production of plastic, for example, design for reuse and recyclability, as well as alternatives to plastics;
  • Reduction of litter from sea-based sources, for example, through port reception facilities for waste from ships and fishing-for-litter schemes.
  • In addition, the project supports awareness raising about sustainable consumption and production of plastic and enhances policy dialogues between the EU, regional organisations and partner countries concerning plastic production and management.
  • In Japan and Singapore, the project focuses on policy dialogue and exchanging about Circular Economy and green procurement policies, processes and cooperation.

Highlight activities /Achievements

  • More than 20 pilot projects in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam test new approaches or the upscaling of best practices for plastic waste management, sustainable consumption and production of plastic or litter reduction from sea-based sources.
  • The project supports dialogue and policy development and cooperates with various partners on identifying good practices and finding new solutions.
  • Knowledge exchange is fostered, for example, through workshops and conferences, webinars and communication campaigns.
  • In 2020, the project organised three regional webinars on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), ‘Reducing Single-Use Plastics in Food Delivery and Take Away’ and on ‘Plastic Waste Recycling Standards’ with 600 live participants.
  • A photo contest and a marine litter quiz for students have already been held with more than 25,000 Chinese students testing their knowledge in the quiz.

Publications/Knowledge Products

Success stories

Wala Usik is a Filipino phrase which means Nothing is Wasted. The pilot project with the same name, implemented in the Philippines by PRRCFI under the ‘Rethinking Plastics’ project, works for example with innovative Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) to reduce plastic waste. In early 2021, interested MSME from food stalls and restaurants, cafes, eateries and sari sari stores in the cities of Bacolod and Talisay could apply to work with Wala Usik interventions to reduce single-use plastic packaging. Out of 113 MSME applications, 11 promising partners were selected, among them Thirdwave Restaurant, which now applies central refilling, a bottle exchange and native packaging.

“As a business owner, I do realize everyday that having a business we accumulate a large amount of plastic that we dispose of every single day. Imagine for a single business we can produce 10kg of trash in a day, multiply that to 30 days, that’s 300kg of waste in a month. Wala Usik Economy is a good project because through this, in my own little way I know I can contribute to save our environment”.

– Laverne Traifalgar, Restaurant Owner, Thirdwave Restaurant

Every year, more than eight million tonnes of plastic waste ends up in the oceans –  among them plastic bags. A pilot in the Indonesian city of Bandung supported by the ‘Rethinking Plastics’ project, aims to reduce the use of plastic bags in retail outlets, including traditional markets. The project has already achieved some initial success: in the first four months, hundreds of market stands were involved in surveys on the baseline situation and some of their customers have already been convinced to take reusable bags. In addition, a debate was held on alternative solutions to single-use plastic bags with market traders and suppliers of alternative packaging. After all, if the project is to be successful, it is vital to involve the population and to cooperate with local partners in order to create awareness about avoiding waste.

‘Our efforts to encourage local governments and economic actors to reduce the use of plastic bags and other single-use plastics are designed to protect the environment against plastic pollution. This is a specific measure to realise regional waste reduction goals – 30 per cent by 2025 – and of course to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’, explains Rayhang Nusantara, national coordinator of Gerakan Indonesia Diet Kantong Plastik (GIDKP), the Indonesian movement to reduce plastic bags, which is cooperating with GIZ to implement the measure on the ground.

COUNTRY

China , Indonesia , Japan , Philippines , Singapore , Thailand , Viet Nam

DURATION

01 July 2016 - 31 December 2022

Commission Agency

 BMZ

with EU co-financing

SDG

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Advice on and support of bilateral energy partnerships with developping and emerging countries – Indo-German Energy Forum Support Office (IGEF-SO) PHASE III
by TUEWAS|November 16, 2020

Advice on and support of bilateral energy partnerships with developping and emerging countries – Indo-German Energy Forum Support Office (IGEF-SO) PHASE III

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Objectives

India

  • The Indo-German Energy Forum was established in 2006 by the Indian Prime Minister and the German Chancellor in order to enhance and deepen the strategic dialogue about the ongoing energy transition. Since then IGEF is intensifying and deepening Indo-German cooperation between government, research institutions and the private sector.

China

  • Support the sustainable transition of China’s energy systems cantered around enhancing renewable energies and energy efficiency by sharing knowledge and experience of the German energy transition.

Description

India

  • The high-level steering committee of the IGEF, also called “Forum”, is the highest embodiment of the Indo-German Energy Partnership. It takes place annually and provides a platform for high-level policy makers and representatives from industry, associations, financial institutions and research organisations from both India and Germany.

China

  • Objective
    • The Sino-German Energy Partnership aims to foster and advance the far-reaching and profound energy transitions ongoing in both countries by exchanging views, best practices and knowledge on the development of a sustainable energy system, primarily centered on improving energy efficiency and expanding the use of renewable energy.
  • Approach
    • Regular working group meetings and high-level bilateral meetings facilitate in-depth political and technical dialogue between German and Chinese decision-makers on the energy transition.For China, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration (NEA) oversee the partnership, while the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) takes the lead on behalf of Germany.Two thematic working groups have been established under bilateral agreements to facilitate cooperation as well as intensify the exchange of information, experiences, and best practices.
  • WORKING GROUP ON ENERGY:
    • Promotion and system integration of renewable energy
    • Electricity market regulation and reform
    • Power sector flexibilisation and energy storage
    • Sustainable heating
    • Green Hydrogen
  • WORKING GROUP ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY:
    • Energy efficiency in industry, city quarters and buildings, including the implementation of demonstration projects
    • Energy efficiency networks
    • Innovative business and financing models
  • Furthermore, the energy partnership aims to encourage think tanks and private sector cooperation and showcase successful technologies, innovative services, and business models to drive the energy transition forward. Both sides have agreed to jointly implement demonstration projects promoting energy conservation to demonstrate exemplary solutions for energy efficiency in industry, as well as integrated district energy planning to serve as reference for China.

Approach/Field of intervention

India

    • Renewable energies
    • Agriphotovoltaics
    • Energy efficiency
    • E-mobility
    • RE Grid integration

China

  • Support Political Dialogue
    • Political dialogue enables an energy policy exchange, defines the strategic direction of the energy partnership, and builds trust. We prepare and facilitate high-level meetings. We support the implementation of agreed activities. We organize the exchange between relevant institutions in Germany and China.
  • Provide political counsel
    • With our unique energy expertise we provide political consultancy services on strategically relevant topics, including continuous counselling as well as preparing studies, analyses, workshops, and trainings.
  • Connect Business and Politics
    • We build bridges between politics and business, facilitate access to decision-makers and help businesses make their position being heard in the partnership countries and involve them by providing the opportunity to contribute their expertise, e.g. in new projects.
  • Enhance Energy Transition Communication
    • Clear communication translates undertakings into understanding. We communicate about energy policy through various channels – in China and Germany. We facilitate know-how and information exchange in order to support the energy transition in both countries and the realization of opportunities by stakeholders in both countries.

Targeted beneficiaries

India

  • Policy makers, associations, private sector stakeholders, financial institutions, research institutions

China

  • Political decision-makers, Policy researcher & designers, Private sectors in energy sector, public

Highlight activities /Achievements

India

  • The IGEF invites stakeholders to participate in high-level policy and expert dialogue. Strategic demonstration projects, collaborative studies and reports as well as information services are major outcomes. Business roundtables, high-level delegations visits to India and Germany and participation at international trade fairs and conferences serve as input activities to the high-level dialogue.

China

Publications/Knowledge Products

Video

Introduction to AgriPhotovoltaics by Mr. Tobias Winter
AgriPV plants and RE Grid Integration with Vertical Bifacial Technology | Mr. Sascha Krause-Tunker
Project at the Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI) by Dr. Priyabrata Santra
Agrivoltaics-Experiences from Germany and Europe by Mr. Maximillian Vorast
AgriPhotovoltaic: An Opportunity To Generate Electricity With Crop Production | Dr. Arun K. Tripathi
Agri-PV Plants in India: Challenges, Opportunities and Road Ahead by Mr. Subrahmanyam Pulipaka
Development of 110KW Agrivoltaic Solar Plant at KVK Ujwa by Mr. Shravan Sampat
1MW-Distributed Solar with Agriculture by Mr. Pravin Goyal
Fraunhofer ISE (Maximilian Vorast) – Agrivoltaics: Experiences from Germany and Europe | REI 2021
SunSeed APV (Vivek Saraf) – Innovative APV Technologies | REI 2021
Oakridge Energy (Shravan Sampath) – Development of 110KW Agrovoltaic solar plant at KVK Ujwa REI2021
SolarPower Europe (Miguel Herrero) – Agrisolar developments in the European Union | REI2021
Discover Female Power for the Energy Transition

Success stories

Indo-German Energy Forum in New Delhi

The 8th Indo-German Energy Forum was co-chaired by Secretary Sanjiv Nandan Sahai (Ministry of Power) and Parliamentary State Secretary Christian Hirte (BMWi) in New Delhi on 1st November 2019. More than 300 high-level delegates from administration, government and commerce adopted the roadmap for the future energy cooperation between the two countries. Eight implementing agreements and declarations of intent worth more than 200 million euros were signed.

In meetings on the margins of the Forum, Germany’s Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner and Research Minister Anja Karliczek were joined by experts from commerce, government and science to discuss the importance of flexibility in the energy system, the positive role of women for the global energy transition, and the potential of offshore wind and vertical photovoltaic systems in India. In a joint final declaration, Heads of Government Narendra Modi and Angela Merkel voiced their appreciation of the “important” and “successful” work of the Indo-German Energy Forum.

Energy Ministers present awards for excellence

The Indo-German Energy Forum was presented with the 2019 CBIP Award for Excellence in Capacity Building and Training. The prize was accepted by Co-Director Anil Kumar Bellary from Energy Minister R.K. Singh at an awards ceremony. Recognition went to the successes of the IGEF in implementing state-of-the-art training and establishing a pool of committed experts who will be able to deploy technical capabilities to shape the Indian electricity sector in a sustainable and innovative manner.

COUNTRY

ASIA , China , India , Pacific Islands

DURATION

India: Since 2016
China: 01 January 2019 – 31 December 2023

Commission Agency

 BMWi

SDG

Contact Person

India

China

  • Ms. Yuxia Yin
  • Project Director of the Sino-German Energy Partnership
  • yuxia.yin@giz.de
  • Mr. Anders Hove
  • Project Director of the Sino-German Energy Transition project, component of Sino-German Energy Partnership
  • anders.hove@giz.de
  • Mr. Maximilian Ryssel
  • Project Director of the Sino-German Demonstration Project on Energy Efficiency in Industry and City Quatres
  • maximilian.ryssel@giz.de
  • Ms. Fangping Weng
  • Fangping.weng@giz.de
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NDC Transport Initiative for Asia
by TUEWAS|November 16, 2020

NDC Transport Initiative for Asia

 NDC Transport Initiative for Asia

Objectives

  • supporting multi-stakeholder dialogue about pathways towards decarbonising transport
  • Promoting efficient, multi-stakeholder approaches coordinated between government ministries, civil society and the private sector
  • Offering technical support for regulations and technical standards to promote electric vehicles

Description

The NDC – Transport Initiative for Asia aims to facilitate a paradigm shift to zero-emission transport across China, India, Viet Nam and further Asian countries. The programme’s mission is to provide policy and technical support for our partner countries and around the Asian region to shift the transportation paradigm and decarbonize mobility for every person, in every sector.

The China component supports in the development of a transport GHG and air pollutants double peaking strategy, providing a technical support platform and improving modelling capacity.

The India component supports the development of a stakeholder platform with the capacity to formulate pathways on decarbonising transport in India and technical assistance to improve policy and procurement frameworks for EVs and charging infrastructure.

The Vietnam component is supporting the Ministry of Transport in developing and implementing their Monitoring Reporting Verification system related to climate change activities in the transport sector.

As a regional initiative the NDC-TIA shares knowledge at a regional and global level through events, media and publications related to designing and implementing long-term, multi-stakeholder strategies for decarbonizing transport.

The NDC Transport Initiative for Asia is a joint programme of seven organisations and is is funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). Implementing organisations are GIZ, World Resources Institute (WRI), International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), International Transport Forum (ITF), Agora Verkehrswende (AGORA), Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) Foundation and Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century e.V. (REN21).

Approach/Field of intervention

  • Climate Change mitigation strategies
  • Transport efficiency
  • Supporting the development of an integrated vision
  • Providing input for target setting
  • Supporting policy frameworks

Targeted beneficiaries

The Asian population; Political decision makers on national and municipal level; Employees of the Ministries of Transport and Environment

Highlight activities /Achievements

China:

  • The time window for the development and the implementation of the “1+N” (transport-specific) plans and measures sets the new stage for the NDC TIA to influence China’s transport climate roadmap through technical and policy consultancy. The project is therefore providing targeted support to MEE and in collaboration with the Sino-German Cooperation on Low Carbon Transport (bilateral GIZ IKI project) also tapping synergies of inter-ministerial collaboration with China’s MoT. First policy briefings have already been provided to MEE ministers (on opportunities of vehicle regulations and pathway to decarbonise China’s transport sector) and MoT (on electric urban delivery vehicles).
  • Guangdong province had already been selected in 2020 as pilot province for the development of a provincial-level double-peaking and long-term decarbonisation strategy for the road transport sector.
  • Several more research papers and policy documents on scenario development, vehicle regulations and data collection, as well as a communication strategy to highlight lessons learned from partner countries in Germany (especially China and India) are published.

India:

  • An array of technical research has been conducted and is ongoing regarding EV technology (smart charging, V2X, renewables-based EV charging, battery swapping, ), market assessments (such as EVs, charging infrastructure, business models, vehicle sales data, etc.) and data collection and modelling, informing policy advocacy, development of technical standards and capacity development.
  • In November 2020, a Digital Library on Green Mobility was launched together with TERI, as a one-stop shop for e-mobility and sustainable transport research.
  • In collaboration with ITF’s Decarbonising Transport in Emerging Economies project, a strategy for modelling enhancement has been defined with a focus on life-cycle analysis, now targeting several universities for capacity and curriculum development.
  • In collaboration with NITI Aayog the ‘Forum for Decarbonising Transport’ was launched. The forum provides a dedicated platform for public and private stakeholders to work towards reducing emissions from India’s transport sector.
  • The India component is supporting Delhi government in its EV Policy 2020 and recommendations for operational guidelines for recycling of traction batteries are under development.

Viet Nam:

  • A very close working relationship has been established with the Department of Environment of the Ministry of Transport, building on previous collaboration in bilateral projects.
  • The development of economic-technical norms for e-bus operations in Hanoi has started. This will serve as a basis for consideration of a subsidy for e-busses.
  • On fuel efficiency regulations, a review of international experiences on fuel-economy standards and a review of existing policies on fuel economy and vehicle labeling in Vietnam have been conducted
  • Ho Chi Minh City has been selected and officially approved for scaling up action at city level, several studies have already been conducted and are ongoing to develop the city’s e-mobility roadmap.

Regional/Global:

  • A milestone was achieved with the establishment of a Council for Decarbonising Transport in Asia in March 2021. The 14 members of the Council are currently developing their flagship report with with a special focus on the blind spots in the discussion on decarbonising transport.
  • One of the most important ongoing political processes at regional level in Asia is the upcoming 2030 Aichi Declaration of the Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum, to be adopted in October. The project has engaged in the consultation process on the declaration to ensure that wording on the need of 2030 targets being in line with full decarbonisation by 2050 was included in the climate goal.
  • In addition to the Council, a Peer Network Transport & Climate in Asia was established with representatives of ministries of transport and environment from 10 Asian countries.
  • The women’s business network “Women on the move – Transforming Transport in Asia” was launched with the goal to enhance the exchange between female experts in the transport sector in Asia and increase the visibility of the daily issues that women face in transport.

Publications/Knowledge Products

Video

INDIA | The Transport Sector at Crossroads – YouTube
CHINA | Sustainable Mobility towards the Future – Green, Intelligent and Shared – YouTube
E launch of GIZ report on E mobility & Low Carbon Passenger Road Transport – YouTube
NDC Transport Initiative for Asia Kick-Off Viet Nam – YouTube
The Council for Decarbonising Transport in Asia – YouTube
COUNTRY

China , India , Viet Nam

DURATION

November 2019 - February 2024

Commission Agency

 BMUV

SDG

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Supporting the Low Carbon Development of Jiangsu Province Phase III
by TUEWAS|November 16, 2020

Supporting the Low Carbon Development of Jiangsu Province Phase III

 Project website

Objectives

  • A sustainable German-Chinese Institute and Network has been established in Jiangsu province, ensuring knowledge transfer, international exchange, and developing products and services in terms of low carbon development.
  • Innovative, long-term, holistic energy management approaches for low carbon development and diversifying energy structure concepts have been developed in collaboration with the Institute and Network and is being applied in Jiangsu province.
  • Professional and methodology expertise for holistic low carbon energy management have been established for permanent operation of the Institute and Network for dissemination.

Description

The project supports its Chinese partners in enabling the transformation towards a low carbon economy, which is in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and advances reaching the goals of the 13th / 14th FYP (2016-2020 / 2021-2025) of Jiangsu province as well as the early peaking of its CO2 emissions. Supported by the provincial government, a sustainable network that persists beyond the duration of the project, will be established. It facilitates a long-term exchange between German and Chinese actors from industry, academia and politics as well as the discourse on coal phase-out. The project and the network will achieve sustainable capacity development through the introduction of methodological knowledge on how to build and manage knowledge networks and how to ensure financing. Furthermore, the necessary technical expertise required by stakeholders of the network will be provided. Results, best practices and proven impacts will contribute to the national and international dialogue on climate change.

Approach/Field of intervention

  • The policy recommendations developed within the framework of this Project on holistic planning of low carbon industrial parks and cities will lead to no less than two standards decreed by the government until 02/2023. In this, the Project refers mainly to support of the political frameworks: “Jiangsu Plan to achieve emission peak” and “Jiangsu framework plan for fossil fuel phase-out”.
  • The network partners organized within the German-Chinese institute network will have initiated no less than three collaboration measures to promote low carbon development until 02/2023; the duration of such collaboration shall be over and beyond the end of Project, and it should be aimed e.g. to reduce dependence on coal-based electricity and contribute to passing the carbon peak.

Targeted beneficiaries

Jiangsu provincial and local organizations and institutions who may apply sustainable climate change and energy policies.

Highlight activities /Achievements

  • A sustainable German-Chinese Institute and Network has been established in Jiangsu province, ensuring knowledge transfer, international exchange, and developing products and services in terms of low carbon development.
  • Innovative, long-term, holistic energy management approaches for low carbon development and diversifying energy structure concepts have been developed in collaboration with the Institute and Network and is being applied in Jiangsu province.
  • Professional and methodology expertise for holistic low carbon energy management have been established for permanent operation of the Institute and Network for dissemination.

Success stories

Cities are the main source of carbon emissions, and urban energy consumption accounts for about 55% of China’s total energy consumption. Energy consumption in buildings and urban areas is a major part. City quarter or community is important part of the urban areas. In order to strengthen the pilot construction of low-carbon communities, NDRC issued the “Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission on Piloting Low Carbon Communities”, as well as compiled and published the “Guidelines for the Construction of Low Carbon Community Pilots” requiring all localities to carry out pilot work on low-carbon communities. GIZ’s project objectives in Jiangsu are in line with this requirement of NDRC. The core concept of the GIZ Jiangsu project is to use the innovative “Integrated Energy System” to promote low-carbon development in existing urban areas. To this end, the GIZ Jiangsu project organized experts from both China and Germany to compile the “Technical Guidelines for Low Carbon Renovation in Existing City Quarters” and prepared seminars for publicity and planned to select suitable demonstration projects in Jiangsu Province, in accordance with the guidelines.

“GIZ has maintained a good cooperative relationship with the Science and Technology Development Center of the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. We have cooperated in many scientific research topics and projects on building energy efficiency. In particular, the urban-regional “integrated energy system” provided effective technical support for the Jiangsu project, and contributed to reduce carbon emissions per unit of GDP in Jiangsu Province during the twelfth and thirteenth Five-Year-Plan periods. Set a good example of Sino-German technical cooperation.” – Mr. Zhang Yuefeng, Chief Director of STDC

According to the instruction from HQ, the People’s Bank of Jiangsu Province must complete the task of reducing total energy consumption by 4% every year. In order to achieve this goal, the energy-saving renovation of the office buildings of each city branch is a key measure. GIZ Jiangsu Low-Carbon Development Project conducted a professional energy audit for the energy-saving renovation project of Zhenjiang Sub-branch and produced a conceptual plan for the energy-saving renovation as a design basis and a reference for mid- and long-term renovation. We also provided follow-up support so that this project will become a demonstration project for the energy-saving renovation of office buildings in a larger area of Jiangsu Province and even nationwide. We also made a suggested standard procedure for energy-saving renovation of office buildings for the PBC, which can provide a reference for the future renovation of other urban sub-branches of the PBC in Jiangsu Province.

“The repair and renovation project of Zhenjiang branch was completed in January 2016… From the comparison of the power consumption of 660,500 kWh in 2015 and 543,500 kWh in 2016, it can be seen that the overall energy-saving effects have exceeded the predetermined targets. Thanks to the strong support of the head office, GIZ and local government. The success of this renovation also provided a good example for all other branches of PBC.” – Mr. Zhong, director of infrastructure construction department, Jiangsu PBC

COUNTRY

China

DURATION

01 January 2019 - 28 February 2023

Commission Agency

 BMUV

SDG

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Sino-German Climate Partnership Phase III
by TUEWAS|November 16, 2020

Sino-German Climate Partnership Phase III

COUNTRY

China

DURATION

15 September 2017 - 15 September 2020

Commission Agency

 BMUV

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Sino-German Environmental Partnership Phase II
by TUEWAS|November 16, 2020

Sino-German Environmental Partnership Phase II

COUNTRY

China

DURATION

October 2017 - October 2021

Commission Agency

 BMUV

Contact Person
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Climate Change Mitigation through Low Carbon Compound Projects in Jiangsu’s Cities
by TUEWAS|June 4, 2019

Climate Change Mitigation through Low Carbon Compound Projects in Jiangsu’s Cities

COUNTRY

China

DURATION

05 February 2015 - 31 December 2018

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Energising Mobility and Transport in China: Mobility and Fuels Strategy as a Contribution to the Traffic Transition in China – Pilot in the Jing-Jin-Ji Region
by TUEWAS|November 1, 2017

Energising Mobility and Transport in China: Mobility and Fuels Strategy as a Contribution to the Traffic Transition in China – Pilot in the Jing-Jin-Ji Region

 www.giz.de/en/worldwide/57478.html

Objective

  • Strengthen the capacities of partner countries to successfully implement climate policy, reduce greenhouse gases and increase adaptive capacity, and thus help them to contribute to achieving the long-term objective of the Paris Agreement
  • Provide a link between German international climate policy and development cooperation

Description

The main objective of the project is to promote the adoption of the example of the German Mobility and Fuels Strategy (MFS) by the Chinese government in a participatory strategy process and the implementation of this process in the pilot region Jing-Jin-Ji. This Chinese strategy process is accompanied and shaped by German stakeholders. Future demand and technology developments will be considered so that China is able to exploit the climate protection potential of alternative fuels and mobility services. This underscores the exemplary character of the MFS in Germany, intensifies the political dialogue in the transport sector and makes an important contribution to the transport transition.

The work packages implemented in the project cover the implementation of a MFS in the Chinese pilot region and the integration of the results into the policy and expert dialogue. The scientific foundation for a MFS is developed on the basis of short studies on mobility topics (e. g. urban mobility concepts) and fuel issues (e. g. alternative drive technologies in heavy-duty traffic). The results are then integrated into the policy and expert dialogue. Providing practical capacity-building for modeling and scenario development, the project is expected to have significant impacts on the regional and local level. On the national level, inter-ministerial policy and expert dialogues on different mobility and fuels topics will contribute to achieving the project’s objectives. Further, the National Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NOW) GmbH will be supported in setting up the virtual Sino-German Electromobility Innovation and Support Center (SGEC).

Field of intervention

  • Emission Quantification and Modeling
  • Transport Transition Strategies
  • Transport Efficiency
  • Capacity Development
  • Private Sector Mobilisation

Targeted beneficiaries

  • Ministry of Transport (MoT) of the People’s Republic of China
  • Political decision makers on national and local level
  • Population of the People’s Republic of China
  • Private Sector
  • NGOs and Think Tanks
COUNTRY

China

Commission Agency

 BMVI

SDG

Contact Person
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