China: The China Climate Change Partnership Framework
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $12,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies ILO, UNESCAP, UNICEF, UNESCO, FAO, UNDP, UNIDO, UNEP, WHO
Main Achievements
- A new high-level Climate Change Policy Task Force established to make policy recommendations on climate change issues. A draft Energy Law submitted to The People’s Congress along with a series of rural energy development strategies.
- The UN-Business Compact on Climate Change launched along with guidelines for private enterprises to respond to climate change. Three pilot enterprises trained on how to develop climate change CSR operational policies . Green Business Options incorporated as a new training module in Start and Improve Your Own Business programme (SIYB).
- Construction of the first heat recovery power generation coal gangue brick pilot completed and a second pilot enterprise selected. All capacity building activities have been completed and awareness raised among farmers and local technicians on climate change and agricultural pollution.
Contact Edward Clarence-Smith, E.Clarence-Smith@unido.org
Climate change presents a challenge to global achievement of MDGs and sustaining hard won gains of developing countries.
Given implications for development, climate change mitigation and adaptation have become a primary challenge and the ability of the world to avoid future crises rests on the ability of China to take targeted actions to mitigate climate change. On June 4 2007 China published its 1st National Climate Change Strategy with key direction to achieve targets on mitigation and adaptation. This followed the January launch of China’s first-ever National Climate Change Assessment showing scenarios of reduced food, land and water security and recommendations for adaptation measures. This programme implements the new National Strategy through national policy/legal measures and improved local capacities and partnerships for financing and technology. It aims to ensure that vulnerable communities– including the world’s biggest rural population – can adapt to climate impacts.