The Environmental Protection Foreign Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection is directly affiliated to the Ministry of Environmental Protection. At the end of 1989, the former Office of the Environmental Protection Foreign Economic Cooperation Leading Group of the State Environmental Protection Administration (FEC) was established, mainly responsible for the management of foreign technical assistance loan projects. In May 1997, the Environmental Protection Foreign Cooperation Center was formally established, and two brands, a set of people, were responsible for the use of international financial organization funds, implementation project funds, bilateral aid funds and other external environmental cooperation affairs in China's environmental protection field. Management work. In order to further strengthen the implementation of environmental international conventions, in January 2016, the Central Government approved the establishment of the Foreign Cooperation Center and the Environmental Technology Implementation Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection. It is mainly responsible for organizing environmental convention policy research, participating in negotiations on relevant environmental conventions, and undertaking domestic Specific technical and transactional work of compliance activities.
After 25 years of development, the Center for Foreign Cooperation has gradually developed a “three mains and one auxiliary” business, which is based on the implementation of international environmental protection conventions, bilateral multilateral environmental project cooperation, and strengthening global environmental policy research, supplemented by environmental international consulting and services. system. Formed a "one set of business, a platform, a set of mechanisms, a team, a building, a culture" of the "six one" material spiritual wealth, established its mission (Mission), goals (Aim), Role, Idea, Strategy. In addition, the center also has a China Global Environment Facility working secretariat jointly established by the Ministry of Finance and the former State Environmental Protection Administration. In 2015, it was approved by the Global Environment Facility National Executive Agency (NIE) to organize and direct GEF projects. Development and implementation. In 2015, the Central Party Committee won the title of Advanced Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Administration in 2012-2015. The Center won the title of Capital Civilized Unit in 2012-2014 and continuously maintained the title of Civilized Unit of the Central State Organ.
Since its establishment, the Center for Foreign Cooperation has always adhered to the work of environmental protection centers, giving full play to the role of domestic and international frontiers and the bridge and window for environmental protection and external cooperation, and constantly push forward the work. In the implementation of international environmental conventions, the Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol, the Stockholm Convention, the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Biosafety Protocol, the Nagoya Protocol, and the Minamata Convention on Mercury In the implementation process, a support system covering the whole process of forward-looking research, negotiation, signing, performance and evaluation of the Convention has been formed. The effectiveness of the implementation has been highly evaluated at home and abroad, and has won many international community awards and affirmations. In terms of dual multilateral cooperation, cooperation with more than a dozen countries and regions such as the World Bank, ADB and other United Nations agencies, international organizations, Italy, the European Union, Germany, Sweden and the United States, through the direct introduction of international environmental protection funds, assistance in the introduction of the World Bank, The ADB loan and other methods have strongly supported the national environmental protection key tasks such as the Sanhe and Three Lakes governance, and promoted a large number of domestic environmental protection initiatives to provide innovative support for domestic environmental protection management. In the field of global environmental policy research, we have carried out research on major national issues such as the 973 and 863 programs, tracking and researching global environmental hotspots and environmental policy trends. Many research results have been adopted and referenced by the Party Central Committee and the State Council. In terms of international consulting services, the greenhouse gas emissions trading project under the Clean Development Mechanism has been developed. The cumulative greenhouse gas emission reduction accounts for 15% of global issuance and 25% of China's contribution to climate change.
In recent years, the Center has adhered to the principle of “continuous development as the direction, economic efficiency as the guide, strengthening the strength as the goal, developing in innovation, innovating in development, consolidating and expanding the overall position of the 'three mains and one auxiliary' function positioning”. The idea is to successfully complete all aspects of work tasks. The center will focus on the overall goal of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to improve environmental quality and key environmental protection work, help green development, build an international intelligence platform (3iPET) for environmental protection of air, water and soil pollution and energy conservation and emission reduction, and actively promote environmental financial innovation and environmental protection investment. Construction of financing platform, support for the revision and implementation of new environmental protection laws, water and gas laws and regulations, preparation of the national administrative college high school civil servant training materials "National Environmental Policy Reader", air source heat pump replacement coal-fired heating demonstration project, explore the reduction of loose coal Pollution discharge, the implementation of national greenhouse gas voluntary emission reduction project validation and certification work, the implementation of environmental international conventions and dual multilateral cooperation has achieved remarkable results, the center maintains a good momentum of rapid development.
Facing the new situation, the center will implement the five development concepts in accordance with the overall layout of the "five in one" and the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, further emancipate the mind, transform and innovate, and make the internationalization cause and deepen the convention with a global vision. To fulfill the contract, expand the service platform, strengthen policy research, focus on improving the ability and level of serving the overall situation of environmental protection, and unremittingly promote the improvement of environmental quality, complement the short-term ecological environment, and make greater efforts to build a beautiful China and move toward a new era of ecological civilization. contribution.
