Activities – Capacity Building for the Establishment of Emissions Trading Schemes in China

Now Available in Chinese: Policy Mix in the Transport Sector: What Role Can the EU-ETS Play for Road Transport?

06 November 2015 – The GIZ China project Capacity Building for the Establishment of Emissions Trading Schemes in China publishes a Chinese translation of the paper Policy mix in the transport sector: What role can the EU ETS play for road transport? The paper was originally published in English in February 2015 by the Oeko Institute Berlin and looks at […]

Now Available in Chinese: Carbon Control and Competitiveness Post 2020: The Cement Report

06 November 2015 – The GIZ China project Capacity Building for the Establishment of Emissions Trading Schemes in China publishes a Chinese translation of the abridged report Carbon Control and Competitiveness Post 2020: The Cement Report. The report, originally published in English in February 2014 by Climate Strategies is an analysis of the effects the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme […]

Annual Report on First-Year Operation of Shenzhen ETS

March 2015 – On 18th June 2013 Shenzhen officially launched its local Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the first among the seven pilots. By mid-2014, the Shenzhen carbon market had operated for one year and had successfully completed its first compliance period. Shenzhen has played a leading role in China’s economic reform and opening up. In the context of further deepening […]

Verifier Training for Guangdong ETS Pilot – Best Practices from EU-ETS (Guangzhou)

30-31 July 2015 – In order to reach the goal of reducing the CO2 emission per GDP unit by 17% in 2015 based on 2010 levels, China has successfully implemented local ETS pilots in Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Hubei and Guangdong. Guangdong Province is planning to include various additional sectors into its local ETS, including ceramics, textile, non-ferrous metal, plastic, […]

International Workshop “Inclusion of the Civil Aviation Sector in Domestic ETS” (Beijing)

27-28 July 2015 – In 2011, the Chinese government announced to gradually establish a carbon market in China as one instrument to tackle the rising carbon emissions. Therefore seven pilots for carbon emissions trading have been selected by the central government. All seven pilot ETS have successfully been implemented by now. The national ETS is scheduled to be operational latest […]

International Workshop for Verification Systems of Domestic ETS in China (Beijing)

24 July 2015 – A monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system is vital for an effective ETS. Data quality and the reliable verification of data are key elements in an efficient MRV system and ETS. In order to present best practices and lessons learnt of the verifying system in EU-ETS and domestic ETS pilots to potential verifiers for the national […]