China Capacity Building for Enhanced Transparency Phase I

Based on new requirements of the enhanced transparency framework under the Paris Agreement, to identify the capacity building needs of national GHG emission, data management and transparency regime, to carry on the study of methodology, institution design, data system application and capacity building training at national, local and enterprise levels, and to improve the integrated management national platform for GHG information and emissions data so as to better support the implementation of the national low-carbon development objectives and the high level implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Identify the needs of domestic transparency capacity building research on establishing China's domestic transparency systems and carry out methodological research needed to fulfill the obligation
Improve guidelines for local GHG emissions, research on establishing provincial and municipal carbon emission accounting methods and reporting systems, and carry out the capacity building for climate change staffs in the MEE
Improve GHG accounting and reporting guidelines and transparency-related systems on enterprise level, to support the construction of national carbon market, and carry out the capacity building for enterprises
Based on the existing national inventory database and policy library, the domestic climate change and GHG transparency platform will be gradually improved and carry out the docking among different levels and fields data platforms.
Supervise the project progress, conducts the project mid-term evaluation and financial compliance review, etc.
National Leading Group to Address Climate Change
Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE)
Ministry of Finance (MOF)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)
China Meteorological Administration (CMA)
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
National Energy Administration (NEA)
National Center or Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC)
Energy Research Institute (ERI)
Tsinghua University
Local governments
Private sector
Civil society

As a professor of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES) and as a director of center for climate change impact (CCIR) of CRAES, I have excellent research skills and management experience in climate change fields; I carried out the research related to climate change for more than 30 years. I have participated IPCC assessment work and UNFCCC greenhouse gases (GHGs) inventory and national communication (NC) review work since 2004. I got enough knowledge on the UNFCCC and IPCC. I have lots of communication experiences with decision makers of both domestic and international. I have practical experiences for dealing with complex situation. In my professorial career, I have a lot of chance to contact with person from different cultural background, and I am sensitivity to political, gender, cultural, religious differences. Multicultural knowledge let me easy to understand and appreciate cultural differences.
