Sino-German Environmental Partnership (SGEP) Phase II

Against the background of slowing economic growth, China’s 13th Five Year Plan has strengthened the issue of environmental protection by calling for sustainable development and an “ecological civilisation”. The German-Chinese Environmental Partnership supported China in developing an effective environmental policy, which included the targeted exchange of experience and advice on issues such as the prevention and control of air, water and soil pollution. The project supported market-oriented approaches and sustainable production & consumption patterns, strengthened institutional and individual capacities to improve compliance with protection measures, contributed to implementing the sustainability goals of the 2030 Agenda and promoted bilateral dialogue with the Chinese Ministry of the Environment and the Chinese Environmental Advisory Council.

Project data

Countries: China
IKI funding: 6,500,000.00 €
Duration: 09/2017 till 04/2022
Status: completed
Implementing organisation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH - China
Political Partner: Ministry of Ecology and Environment - China
Implementing Partner: China Council for International Cooperation (CCICED) - China

Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (FECO) - China

Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIES), Ministry of Ecology and Environment
Online: http://environmental-partnership.org/

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State of implementation/results

Project completed.
The project manages and coordinates the German contribution to the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), the multilateral environmental advisory council of the Chinese government. The German experts active in the CCICED advise in particular on the topics of Green Finance, Biodiversity Conservation, Green Technology and Sustainable Production and Consumption.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China (MEE) and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) have expanded the project to include the topic area of "Biodiversity Conservation" in order to support China in hosting the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Kunming from October 11-15, 2021. The new activities include, on the one hand, dialogue events, including workshops on sustainable event management and mobilizing the private sector for biodiversity conservation (Oct. 28, 2019 and Mar. 9, 2021) and a preparatory event for CBD COP 15 jointly organized with the German Embassy in Beijing entitled "On the Way to CBD COP 15: Business and Biodiversity" with more than 100 high-level representatives* from business and politics (June 18, 2021). On the other hand, the project coordinates a professional-technical cooperation on ecosystem accounting and biodiversity modeling. This is carried out jointly with the Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences of MEE (NIES), the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences of MEE (CRAES), the Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center of MEE (FECO) and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and supported by the World Conservation Monitoring Center of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP-WCMC).
The project supports a wide range of work streams of bilateral dialogue between MEE and BMUV and their respective institutions, including the German Environment Agency (UBA), BfN, and FECO. Currently, exchanges are focused on chemical management, soil pollution prevention and control, eco-labeling, volatile organic compound (VOC) management, and biodiversity.
The 6th Sino-German Environmental Forum (Oct. 30-31, 2019, Beijing) was opened by China's Vice Minister of Environment ZHAO Yingmin and German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze and brought together 290 representatives from Chinese and German authorities, companies, universities and civil society organizations. It promoted the exchange on current challenges of environmental and climate policy, technological solutions and cooperation opportunities for the effective implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the 2030 Agenda. The project organized the forum together with the IKI global project "Strategic Environmental Dialogues" and with support from the IKI project "German-Chinese Climate Partnership", among others.

Latest Update:
04/2025