Year 

Research and consulting projects

2012-2015

1.   Mid-term evaluation 'EU-China Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy (ICARE)'

      Client:EU Delegation Beijing

      Focus on:

• Evaluation of relevance, design and EU-visibility, efficiency of resource use, project progress and effectiveness, impact, sustainability prospects and cross-cutting issues

Personal expert involvement:

• Senior international expert

2.   China Climate Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) Project

      Client:World Bank / GEF

      Focus on:

• Methodology development, technical oversight, synthesis and dissemination.
• Technology assessments at the sector and provincial levels
• Capacity building to support climate technology networks
• Pilot program to accelerate technology transfer

      Personal expert involvement:

• Senior international expert for climate change mitigation technology
• Methodological research on technology needs assessment in China
• Liaison with relevant stakeholders
• Coordination of work and organisation of working groups linking international and Chinese experts

2011-2014

1.   Market-based System Reforms for Energy Sector Low Carbon Development in China

Client:China Energy Research Society (CERS), NDRC

      Focus on:

• Overview on energy system management and regulatory structures between the PRC and EU/UK
• Report highlighting UK low carbon energy market approaches, pricings, and regulatory reforms in energy sector
• Analysis of applicable low carbon energy market instruments and policy measures to the PRC based on the UK energy sector reform experiences

Personal expert involvement:

• Attraction of the project
• Senior international expert
• Research

2.   Low Carbon Future Cities - A Sino-German Cooperation on an Integrated Climate and Resource Proof Urban Development

         Client:Mercator Foundation, Germany

         Focus on:

• Development of a Low Carbon City strategy for Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, China
• Development of a Stakeholder Dialogue Forum on Low Carbon Cities between Wuxi and the Düsseldorf region
• Development of suitable communication and dissemination instruments

Personal expert involvement:

• Attraction of the project together with Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
• Work package leadership
• Research
• Coordination of work with the Chinese project partners

2010

1.     Development of Green City Guidelines

Client:InWEnt, Germany

         Focus on:

• Development of Green City Guidelines
• Implementation of a Dialogue Forum on Low Carbon Cities for InWent in Beijing

Personal expert involvement:

• Attraction of the project
• Research and consulting
• Coordination with Chinese team colleagues

2.     Plug-In China - Electricity Infrastructure and Markets • China • 2020|2030

Client:Ludwig Bölkow Systemtechnik, Germany

         Focus on:

• Research on the framework conditions of e-mobility in China

Personal expert involvement:

• Attraction of the project
• Research and consulting
• Coordination of the work with the Chinese project partner

2010-2011

1.   Carbon Market in the new building sector in China – Programmatic-CDM, new sectoral approaches, development of a national trade platform

         Client:    Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and             Nuclear Safety

         Focus on:

• Reduction of transaction costs of different of new instruments of the carbon market in the building sector (pCDM, e.g. through typified PDDs, sectoral approaches in comparison to (p)CDM)
• Derivation of first insights to the feasibility of the development of a national trade platform for emission credits in the building sector
• Utilisation of these instruments by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in a pilot region

Personal expert involvement:

• Attraction of the project
• Project leader and coordination of project with BMU and the other project partners incl. the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development
• Research

2009-2010

1.     Explore for Low Carbon Economy in the Cities in China

Client: InWEnt

      Focus on:

• Investigation on the development of a Low Carbon Economy in urban areas in China

Personal expert involvement:

• Attraction of the project
• Project leader
• Research
• Coordination of work with other institutions (Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, Chinese Society for Sustainable Development, Low Carbon Group)