2022: Year in Review

With support from partners, last year UNDP China saw important achievements in its mission to advance the SDGs

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Four Decades of Partnership with China to Build a Sustainable Future for All

In January 2023, UNDP Resident Representative in China, Beate Trankmann, was interviewed by World Affairs Pictorial: Foreign Affairs Horizon China's first large-scale comprehensive pictorial magazine covering global affairs.

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Op-ed
Women in science can change world

From climate change to the energy crisis to COVID-19, the answers to our most universal challenges lie in science. Yet in seeking them, we still exclude the brainpower of half the world: women and girls.

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Let's make AI better

Artificial intelligence presents tremendous potential to not only advance our progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, but also ensure that we continuously build resilience along the way.

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Issue Brief: Pilot of Social and Sustainability Bonds on China’s Inter-Bank Market

The global bond market is an important part of capital markets and a key source of finance. However, only 11.3 percent of the bonds issued were reportedly used in environmentally or socially focused areas.

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China in Numbers (2022)

As the second iteration in the China in Numbers series, this brief presents key statistics to picture China’s development landscape in 2022 from three dimensions: economy, people as well as energy and emissions.

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Climate Action? 5 Steps our Office is Taking!

See how UNDP China is walking the talk on going low-carbon

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What we do

UNDP assists China in integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into development decisions, promotes the transition to an inclusive, low-carbon economy and a sustainable society, protects biodiversity, and informs China’s international development cooperation engagement to advance global progress on the SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement.

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China's Green Development: Key Takeaways From 2021

Fighting both climate change and biodiversity loss is critical to protecting people and planet, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To this end, China’s green development has the potential to make significant contributions to both domestic and global efforts. In 2021, UNDP China convened several policy dialogues and published a number of policy and issue briefs analyzing newly released policy documents including China's 14th Five-Year Plan, which will shape China's green development for years to come. Here, we sum up the main takeaways and insights from these briefs as well as key recommendations moving forward.

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China's Green Development: Key Takeaways

Our impact

57

million tonnes

cumulative greenhouse gas emissions cut (2016-21)

31.3

million

people given access to clean water (since 2011)

1.9

million

Hectares of land included as Protected Areas (as of 2019)

30

%

of HCFC Consumption phased-out

113

billion

Litres of water saved (since 2011)

5

billion RMB

SDG Bond issued with NDB

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