Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) in China and Germany
The Urban Energy Transition in China and Germany: Selected Best Practices
Sustainable Structural Change and Urban Energy Transitions
Changing economics of fossil fuels and the energy transition away from coal poses a challenge for coal mining regions. The Ruhr Area in Germany already has undergone this transition and holds valuable lessons both for structural transition and for municipal energy transition that are of relevance to Chinese coal or industrial regions that are facing […]
Energy Concepts for the Pilot Cities Dunhuang, Xintai and Jiaxing-Xuizhou – Summary of Important Results (EN)
This summary of three city energy concepts concisely presents the findings of a combined Sino-German effort to transfer best practices from Germany to China. The concepts map pathways for each of the three cities on how to use as much clean energy as possible by 2030; which technologies are viable and which measures can accelerate […]
Developing Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs) (EN)
Municipalities are a central field of action for combating climate change and the transition to an ecologically sound, low-carbon energy system. In China and worldwide, most people live in cities and they are the level on which most climate and energy measures ultimately are implemented. What is particularly challenging to administrations and policymakers is that […]
Municipal Directive of Climate Protection on City Level (CN)
Since 2008, the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) has started to promote climate protection on city level through the Municipal Directive. This is the most important national climate protection project in Germany. From 2008 to the end of 2018, about 14,400 projects in more than 3450 towns received a total […]
