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United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, included representatives from the world's governments, international organizations and civil society who met to discuss the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Long Term Cooperative Action, according to the Bali Roadmap.

Representatives from UNDP China, led by Ms. Renata Dessallien, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, joined the discussions participating in a UNDP China and the National Development Reform Commission (NDRC) official side event titled China’s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change and the NDRC side event on the National Centre for Climate Strategy and International Cooperation of China (NCSC).

The events were held to engage conference attendees in an in-depth discussion on climate change efforts in China, to promote understanding and provide information to the country delegations and COP participants about the Chinese climate change progress, as well as advocate the joint efforts by UNDP China and the Chinese government on climate change.

In the midst of the United Nations Climate Change Forum in Durban, South Africa, a side event was held on 5 December 2011 to showcase the newly formed National Climate Change Strategy Research and International Cooperation Centre (NCSC). As a platform for building partnerships and promoting the sustainable consumption of China’s dwindling natural resources, this event was attended by UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Ms. Renata Dessallien; Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission and Head of the China Delegation to Durban, Mr. Xie Zhenhua; and Director General, Department of Personnel for the National Development and Reform Commission, Mr. Sun Lin.

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At an official side event held on 5 December 2011, leaders from China’s National Development Reform Commission (NDRC) and United Nations Development Programme gathered to discuss China’s policies and action plans to promote green and low carbon development, including fossil fuel consumption, carbon trading, and addressing the consequences of unbalance growth, as identified by its most recent 12th Five-Year Plan. Keynote speakers at the event included Ms. Su Wei, Director General of Climate Change at NDRC, and Veerle Vandeweerd, Director of the Environment and Energy Group, Bureau of Development Policy at UNDP Headquarters.

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