Download - Center for Climate Strategies

YU Qingchan
Global Environmental Institute (GEI)
December 11, 2014
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A China-based NGO founded in Beijing in March 2004
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Unique Chinese NGO:
 Market-based solutions
 Facilitate cooperation between domestic and foreign
governments, research institutes, business & civil society
 Forward thinking: take the lead in acting
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Approach:
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research
pilot
policy recommendation/scale up
Work areas:
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Energy & climate change
Biodiversity conservation
Investment, trade & environment
Capacity building
Global Partners
Why cooperate?
GEI-CCS collaboration: since 2009
Chinese demand:
• Carbon intensity targets allocated
to subnational governments
• Five Province & Eight City Low
Carbon Development Pilots
announced in Aug. 2010
• Officials and technical experts
actively explored low-carbon
planning methodology
Challenges:
• Lack a set of standardized
methods and tools for quantifying
policies
GEI
CCS advantages:
• Scientific, standardized,
quantification methodology and
tools for developing U.S. state
climate action plans
CCS methodology:
• Regional GHG emissions
inventory and baseline forecast
• Policy cost-benefit analysis
• Regional economic impact
analysis
• Stakeholder involvement
Objectives:
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Adapt methodology & tools from U.S. state-level climate action
planning for application in China, to help subnational
governments achieve carbon intensity targets by making
quantified low carbon policies
Build capacity of Chinese officials and experts for low carbon
policy analysis, and implementation
Since May, 2011:
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Joined EcoPartnership under the China-U.S. Ten Year Framework
on Energy and Environment Cooperation in Washington DC, US
How cooperate?
Technical
exchange, R&D
Provincial-level
pilots
GEI & CCS
Institute of Policy
& Management,
Chinese Academy
of Sciences (CAS
IPM)
Other domestic
and international
partners
Microeconomic
analysis tools &
macroeconomic
model adaptation
and development
Capacity building
& scale up
Low Carbon
Development
Planning in other
Chinese
provinces/cities
Training and
outreach through
GEI’s capacity
building platform
Achievements
a. Toolkit completion: Policy Package of China (PAC)
Policy Insight of China (PIC)
Recognized by Director Su Wei of the Climate
Department of NDRC
b. PAC application in Chongqing Municipality:
Report: “Evaluation of Chongqing Low-carbon
Policies in12th Five-year Plan and
Recommendations to 13th Five-year Plan”
Acquired official recognition from Chongqing
DRC
c. PIC model application:
Analysis: China’s development scenarios and
policy framework for carbon emission peak
Recognized by Minister Xie of the NDRC
Capacity building:
Designing training
curriculum, and providing
training at Tianjin
Academy of Governance
Trainees:
• Local officials
• Policy advisors
Future Plans
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Promote toolkit application in more regions:
 Develop training curriculum & provide training to
officials & experts
 Analyze low-carbon policies in other provinces & cities
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Extend toolkit in broader work areas:
 Analyze “climate change adaptation” policy
 Evaluate co-benefit of “environment & health” policy
and climate change policy
Thank you!
www.geichina.org
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