China Carbon Forum (CCF) was established in 2007 by professionals in China’s climate change sector as a non-for-profit organization to exchange information, best practices and engage with China’s climate change stakeholders. Since then, CCF has held over 30 events and discussions on specific climate change topics, facilitated countless linking opportunities between China’s climate change stakeholders, and attracted high-level stakeholders such as China’s chief climate negotiator (Su Wei), the European Commission Director General of Climate Action (Jos Delbeke) and President of World Resources Institute (Manish Bapna). CCF now has a network of more than 1,500 experts and professionals spanning all areas of China’s climate change community.
In 2012 CCF’s activities featured five high-level events delivered in partnership with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) as part of a Low Carbon Leadership Network. This cooperation with GIZ has continued into 2013. 2013 activities also include information sharing in cooperation with carbon market consulting firms and foreign governments, and a research project in cooperation with the Australian National University on China’s pilot emissions trading schemes.
CCF operates under the direction of an executive board and board of advisors made up of Chinese and foreign professionals from various stakeholder groups in China’s climate change sector. The board and advisory members serve in a voluntary capacity without remuneration.