CCICED China Council forInternational Cooperation onEnvironment and Development(CCICED) PromotingDigitalization and GreenTechnologiesfor SustainableDevelopment CCICEDSpecialPolicyStudyReport CCICED June2023
Project Team Team leads*: Chinese team lead: 0 Prof. Ke Gong Past President of WFEO Executive Director of the Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies Intermational team leads: 0Prof. Dirk Messner President German Environment Agency 0Gim Huay Neo Managing Director Centre for Nature and Climate World Economic Forum 0 Antonia Gawel former Head Climate Action; Deputy Head Centre for Nature and Climate World Economic Forum Coordinators: Chinese coordinator: Lei Pei Office manager of Binhai Development Institute Nankai University Intermational coordinators: 0 Qiuping Li Lead Emerging Markets and Climate Action World Economic Forum 0Anna Rosenbaum International Affairs Officer German Environment Agency Core experts*: Chinese team: OProf. Gang Liu Professor in the Innovation Economics and Innovation Policy Ph.D. supervisor and Director of Nankai Institute of Economics 0i Prof. Chaofeng Shao Professor and doctoral supervisor of the College of Environmental Science and Engineering Nankai University Jie Liu Lecturer of the Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies o Xinwei Zhang Assistant Researcher of the Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies Intemational team: Dr. Stephan Ramesohl Co-Head of Research Unit Digital Transformation Circular Economy Wuppertal Institute GER 0 Prof. Felix Creutzig Head of working group Land Use Infrastructure and Transport; Chair of Sustainability Economics Technische Universitit Berlin o Dr. Zhiguang Shan Director of the Information and Industrial Development Department State Information Centre 0 Anna Zagorski Research Associate German Environment Agency Dr. Guoyong Liang Senior Economist United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 0 Eric White Head Tech for the Sustainable Development Goals World Economic Forum o Daniel Hausmann Porfolio Manager Cluster Climate Energy Environment and Biodiversity at the East Asia Regional Office - Deutsche Gesellschaft fir Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Advisory experts: Chinese team: 0 Xing Zhao Professor and doctoral supervisor of the College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering Nankai University and Office Director of the Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies Chun Luo Postdoctoral fellow of the Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies
Intemational team: 0 Prof. Mattias Hojer Professor in Environmental Future Studies KTH Royal Institute of Technologies 0Dr. Marcel Dorsch Senior Scientist Digital Change and Sustainability Transformation German Environment Agency and German Environment Agency Focal Point CODES 0Dr. Hao Xu Vice President Sustainable Social Value Business; Head Carbon Neutrality Laboratory Tencent Holdings 0Lisa Wee Global Head Sustainability AVEVA Group Plc 0 Kitty Xia Director Corporate Affairs and Sustainable Development Schneider Electric Earth System Science Tsinghua University 0 Dr. Daoping Wang Hoffmann Fellow Global Climate Govermance World Economic Forum Project management team: Chinese team: 0 Mingxi Liao Assistant to Past President of World Federation of Engineering Organizations o Guanyi Wang Manager of the International Organization Services office of Nankai University 0 Ran Jing Administrative staff of the Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies Intermational team: 01 Lizhi Zhao Scientific Officer German Environment Agency Jan-Hendrik Eisenbarth Advisor Sino-German Environmental Partnership II - Deutsche Gesellschaft fiur Intermationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH o Dai Min Project Manager Sino-German Environmental Partnership II - Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Intemationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Dr. Niels Thevs Project Director Sino-German Environmental Partnership III - Deutsche Gesellschaft fir Intermationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Markus Wypior Team Leader of Environment Sector and Project Director Sino-German Energy Transition Project - Deutsche Gesellschaft fir Intermationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Acknowledgements: The projcct team would like to express our gratitude to the following experts and colleagues for their support and contributions to deliver this report: ● China Council for Intermational Cooperation on Environment and Development: Huiyong Zhang Kan Liu Xiaoran Hao ●The Secretariat International Support Office (SISO) of the CCICED: Sam Zhang Qi Zheng Brice Li Isaak Bowers * World Economic Forum: Maya Ben Dror Na Na Helen Burdett Ting Peng Tony Wu Zheqiong Lei (former intern) Mario Canales German Environment Agency: Marcel Dickow Intermational Institute for Sustainable Development: Hans Baumgarten State Information Centre of China: Yufei Fang * The WPS Group: Kristine St-Pierre Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: Rui Zhong *The team leads andmembers of this special poliy study (SPS） serve in their personal capacities. The viws and opinions expressed in this SPS report are those of the individual experts participating in the SPS Team and do not represent those of their organizations and CCICED. 3
Contents Project Team. Executive Summary 6 1. Theoretical Basis and Conceptual Framework ..8 1.1 Introduction.. .8 1.2 Embracing the Sustainability Transformation Challenge ..8 1.2.1Problem Statement: What is the nature of the sustainable development challenge? .8 1.2.2 How to Get It Solved: Cultivating the core transformation abilities to achieve sustainable development. .... ..9 1.3 Digital Capabilities and Sustainable Development: The opportunity space. ...10 1.4 Sustainable Development Driven by Digital Technology: China’s Practices and Prospects ... .1 1.4.1 Characterization of China’s Digital Economy. .12 1.4.2 Technology System and Application Areas 13 1.4.3 Innovative Applications of Digital Technology in the Economy. ...13 1.4.4 Application of Digital Technology in Social Fields. .14 1.5 Leveraging the Digital Transformation Oportunity Space Closing the Strategic Gap between Digital Technology and the Sustainability Transformation . ...15 1.6 Conclusion... ..18 2. Green the Digital Sector and Accelerate Digitalization for Green Transformation . ...19 2.1 Introduction.. .19 2.2 Present Development and Problems .20 2.2.1 Present Green Development of the Digital Sector.. ..20 2.2.2 Integration of the Digital Sector and Green Development .20 2.3 Green Development Path in the Digital Fields. ..2 2.3.1 Digital Infrastructures and Facilities .22 2.3.2 Green Digital Services. .26 2.3.3 Green Development of Digital Companies. ..27 2.4 Mode of Digital Technology-Based Greening .31 3. Digital Technology and Sustainable Development of Cities. .34 3.1 Introduction . .... 3.2 State of Smart Cities in China. .35 3.3 Mobility: Avoid-Shift-Improve Approaches. 37 3.4 Buildings: Avoid-Shift-Improve Approaches . .39 3.5 Spatial Planning: Use AI for Sustainable Urban Design. .40 4. Digital Technology and Climate Change Adaptation... .42 4.1 Major Climate Change Adaptation Challenges in China 42 4.2 Potential Digital Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation .44
4.2.1 AI Techniques for High-Accuracy Precipitation Forecasting. 44 4.2.2 Operational Digital Twins in the Urban Water Sector .. .46 4.3 Governance Innovation for Leveraging Digital Adaptation.. .47 5. The Gender Perspective... .48 6. Policy Remendations... .51 6.1 Greening the Digital Sector.. .51 6.2 Building Smart Sustainable Cities. .52 6.3 Leveraging Digitalization for Climate Change Adaptation. .53 6.4 Mainstreaming Gender in Digitalization. .54 References.. .55 Appendix 1 Technology Complexity Measurement Index of China’s Digital Technology Application and Application Area in 2021 .59 Appendix 2 Typical Practice Cases in Europe .60 Appendix 3 Practice Case in China: Tencent's Carbon Neutrality Target and Roadmap. ..62 Appendix 4 Chengdu’s Innovative Practices in Digitalization and Green Development. .6.3
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