Climate Change Mitigation
China’s impressive development in recent decades has been driven by a process of urbanization and industrialization, powered predominantly by coal energy. This fossil fuel consumption has carried a heavy environmental impact; in 2007 China overtook the United States as the world’s largest producer of climate-changing Green House Gases (GHGs), although per capita emissions remain modest by global standards. China has taken responsibility and responded effectively; 2014 figures show a decline in coal consumption for the first time in 15 years, and China is now the world’s largest investor in renewable energy.
What we do?
To improve China’s compliance towards the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and its Kyoto Protocol, UNDP’s collaboration with government ministries including the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MOST) and Ministry of Agriculture (MOA], Ministry of Finance (MOF), National Government Offices Administration (NGOA) and local counterparts and related Associations to promoting energy efficiency practices in industries including lighting, buildings, logistics and motors by establishing technical standards, adjusting institutional arrangements alongside capacity building and demonstration to reduce the emission of GHGs in China and help mitigating climate change.
This project primarily aims to remove barriers to market transformation in rural areas. The intervention strategy has four components, designed to each tackle one of the particular challenges faced at present. more