News List before 2016

Level Roundtable on Strategy of Extreme Climate Adaptation in China was jointly organized by Global Water Partnership China, Asian Development Bank and Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on April 22, 2011 in Beijing with the co-sponsors of UNESCO Office Beijing, UNICEF Office for China, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), WWF Beijing Office, Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of the Ministry of Water Resources and Climate Change Research Center of the Ministry of Water Resources and 130 participants from the key water-related ministries under the State Council, and relevant departments of the Ministry of Water Resources, UN organizations’ offices in China, foreign embassies in Beijing, universities, research institutes and NGOs.

The Fourth Yangtze River Forum, jointly initiated by GWP China and some other organizations, was organized by the People’s Government of Jiangsu Province, Yangtze River Conservancy Commission of Ministry of Water Resources on April 18 to 19, 2011 in Nanjing, China.

The Workshop on Groundwater Management for Coping with Climate Change cosponsored by China Institute of Water Resource and Hydropower Research and the Groundwater Monitoring Centre of Ministry of Water Resources, was held on March 22~23, 2011 in Beijing.

The Workshop on Climate Change, Food and Water Security in South-Asia was jointly held by GWP and IWMI in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 24-25 February 2011.

The meeting of the 3rd Conference of the 2nd GWP China Council was held in Beijing on February 16, 2011.

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between GWP China and WWF China for a five-year cooperation framework on January 23, 2011, Beijing.

The Meeting on Collaboration for Wetland Protection in Dongting Lake Basin, organized by GWP China Hunan on December 20, 2010 in Yueyang, Hunan Province, with over 130 people from the sector of water, environment, forestry and education.

The Workshop on Health of Water and Ecology was jointly organized by the GWP China and the Ecological Society of China on December 12, 2010 in Beijing, with more than 50 participants from Eco-Environmental Research Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IWHR, CDC and other universities, enterprises, governmental agencies and NGOs.

The 16th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) and the 6th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP-6) were taken place in Cancun, Mexico from November 29 to December 10, 2010.