Changchun Field Research under the Zhenhua Green Transformation and Sustainable Development Fund’s “Local Climate Action Capacity Building” Initiative

From November 4 to 5, the field research of the "Local Climate Action Capacity Building" project—supported by the China Environmental Protection Foundation's Zhenhua Green Transition and Sustainable Development Fund—took place in Changchun. Organized by the Zhejiang Economic & Information Center, the research team of more than 20 members visited key facilities including the Changchun Circular Economy Industrial Park, the Changchun Kuancheng Resource Comprehensive Recycling Base, and Yitong Manchu Autonomous County Huada Biomass Power Generation Co., Ltd., conducting on-site investigations into waste-to-energy incineration, end-of-life vehicle dismantling, and integrated biomass utilization. The team also held seminar discussions with local stakeholders. Ms. Wang Yanhui, Deputy Executive Director of iGDP, was invited to deliver a keynote speech. She introduced ACTION 2035, a project aimed at enhancing comprehensive local capacity for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality actions, as well as the newly established Local Climate Action Partners Platform launched under the Zhenhua Fund in September. She expressed hope that the initiative will conduct grounded research and analysis across China, identify representative, replicable, and scalable cases of local green practices, strengthen experience sharing and dissemination, and thereby fully unlock local emission reduction potential, raise ambition for low-carbon transformation, and accelerate the transition process.