Low Carbon Economic Development and Beyond: Cooperation Areas for a Green Economy

German only. Translated title: Low Carbon Economic Development and Beyond: Cooperation Areas for a Green Economy. A German-Chinese Dialogue (Conference Documentation)

Tackling the environmental challenges of the 21st century – climate change, resource scarcity and destruction of biological diversity – requires an entire transformation of the current economic system towards one that is based on sustainability. Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development – UNCED (1992), the United Nations General Assembly has set "Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction" as a major theme for the Rio plus 20 Conference in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. China and Germany are central partners in a transformation process towards a global green economy.

On 18 January 2011, by the invitation of adelphi and the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), high-ranking experts from both countries discussed joint approaches for a Green Economy. The focus was on exchanging respective challenges and prospects of a Green Economy and discussing innovative policy approaches to attain sustainable, low-carbon urban and regional development as well as cleaner industrial production processes