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Social & Environmental Justice China-Program Nora Sausmikat and Inga Gebauer Twinning: Partnerships between European and Chinese NGOs Social & Environmental Justice · Climate Change & Low Carbon Development Imprint Title: Twinning: Partnerships between European and Chinese NGOs Social & Environmental Justice · Climate Change & Low Carbon Development Published by: China-Program of the Stiftung Asienhaus Hohenzollernring 52 50672 Cologne, Germany Written by: Nora Sausmikat, Inga Gebauer In cooperation with: Joanna Klabisch, Gregor Grossman, Courtney Tenz Supported by The authors are responsible for the content. All rights reserved. © Cologne, Germany 2016 Coverphoto: Green Zhejiang, September 2015 Concept and design: Chanika Ronczka Typesetting, lithography and printing: Klartext Medienwerkstatt GmbH, Essen, Germany Picture Credits: Katiuscia Eroe (61); Li Fangfang (34); Marta Ferri (22, 23, 74); Laura Foster (28); Rebecca Freitag (58); Inga Gebauer (20, 27, 32, 40, 43, 48, 52, 57, 65, 73); Markus Hurschler (37); Thorben Jensen (54, 77); Shi Jinwen (36, 76); Louisa Kistemaker (41, 42, 76); Kjell Kühne (66); Georgeta Muraneau (33); Dorothee Saar (15, 17 [x2], 74); Stiftung Asienhaus (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 69, 70); Yi Ru (30); Zhang Di (67); Zheng Xiaowen (59) Order at: Stiftung Asienhaus, Vertrieb, Hohenzollernring 52, 50672 Cologne, Germany E-Mail: [email protected] | Phone: 0221-716121-13 | Fax: 0221-716121-10 © Stiftung Asienhaus, Cologne, Germany 2016 All rights reserved. Reprinting in any form or by any means only permitted when citing authors and publisher. ISBN 978-3-93341-69-8 2 Greetings links: Editor’s Note Stressing the importance of people-to-people dialogue Imprint Title: Twinning: Partnerships between European and Chinese NGOs The new law on managing foreign non-governmental Cooperation among NGOs and the professionalization Social & Environmental Justice · Climate Change & Low Carbon Development organizations (NGOs), to be implemented on January of the non-profit sector is a field which we support in Published by: 01, 2017, has been long in the making and is, in prin- the context of our partnership with the Ministry of Civil China-Program of the Stiftung Asienhaus ciple, highly welcome. As civil society actors, we sup- Affairs in Beijing, with which Stiftung Mercator has offi- Hohenzollernring 52 port efforts by the state to create a legal framework cially registered a Beijing Representative Office. 50672 Cologne, Germany for NGOs, thereby, in theory, strengthening the rule of law in China. However, what concerns and inter- The Stiftung Asienhaus in Cologne once again had the Written by: Nora Sausmikat, Inga Gebauer ests practitioners like us the most is, of course, the lead in coordinating all partners involved. We would In cooperation with: Joanna Klabisch, Gregor Grossman, Courtney Tenz question of how it will be implemented: will it support like to congratulate Nora Sausmikat and her team for and enhance fruitful cooperation between Chinese a successful year with many varied applications from and foreign actors or will it curtail their ability to work China and Europe. We would also like to thank the Supported by together? Based on the mere wording of the law, this Climate Action Network (CAN-E) in Brussels and the is as yet difficult to foresee. China Association for NGO Cooperation (CANGO) in Beijing for their hard work. In the following pages, you The authors are responsible for the content. “International Civic Cooperation” is one of the key will see for yourself that the interest in an exchange All rights reserved. © Cologne, Germany 2016 themes of the Robert Bosch Stiftung’s focus area, of topics and joint projects is alive and well. The par- Coverphoto: Green Zhejiang, September 2015 International Relations. NGOs play a vital role in trans- ticipants’ impressive portfolio ranges from environ- Concept and design: Chanika Ronczka formation processes, which can benefit from trust and mental interest litigation, sustainable consumption Typesetting, lithography and printing: Klartext Medienwerkstatt GmbH, Essen, Germany advice from the outside. Therefore, we highly stress and preservation of historical buildings, to sexual Picture Credits: Katiuscia Eroe (61); Li Fangfang (34); Marta Ferri (22, 23, 74); Laura Foster (28); Rebecca Freitag (58); the importance of people-to-people dialogue and col- education, low-carbon household practices and waste Inga Gebauer (20, 27, 32, 40, 43, 48, 52, 57, 65, 73); Markus Hurschler (37); Thorben Jensen (54, 77); Shi Jinwen (36, 76); laboration amongst peers. We do so by also bringing management. We are looking forward to the continu- Louisa Kistemaker (41, 42, 76); Kjell Kühne (66); Georgeta Muraneau (33); Dorothee Saar (15, 17 [x2], 74); together other important stakeholders of society, such ing collaboration between our two foundations and Stiftung Asienhaus (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 69, 70); Yi Ru (30); Zhang Di (67); Zheng Xiaowen (59) as judges, lawyers or journalists and educators from all partners involved. Germany and China. Order at: Stiftung Asienhaus, Vertrieb, Hohenzollernring 52, 50672 Cologne, Germany E-Mail: [email protected] | Phone: 0221-716121-13 | Fax: 0221-716121-10 The overarching goal of Stiftung Mercator in its Interna- Christian Hänel © Stiftung Asienhaus, Cologne, Germany 2016 tional Affairs programs is for people to understand one Head of Department All rights reserved. Reprinting in any form or by any means only permitted when citing authors and publisher. another, learn from one another and jointly overcome International Relations America and Asia global challenges. In practice, this goal is primarily pur- Robert Bosch Stiftung ISBN 978-3-93341-69-8 sued through the “exchange of people and ideas”. In our China program, we work with young people (from Marc Bermann high-school students to young professionals) and edu- Director cators, as well as with decision makers in politics and Centre for International Affairs administration, (civil-) society, science and culture. Stiftung Mercator Editor’s Note 3 links: Editor’s Note Editor’s Note Throughout 2015, we have witnessed turmoil in It has become clear to our entire team various places around the world. In the EU, the refu- that without the Asian countries in general gee crisis became the predominant challenge, spark- and China in particular, none of the global ing debate on how best to handle the influx of peo- ple and dividing member states. In China, the deadly environmental challenges can be solved. explosion of a warehouse container storing highly [The exchange] has provided our team with toxic substances in the port of Tianjin cost the lives the prospect of working internationally of more than 100 people. It also created an environ- with colleagues in China – an idea formerly mental catastrophe that raised questions about cor- unknown to us. porate responsibility in the production and storage of chemical substances, the effect of these substances Markus Hurschler, foodwaste.ch on human health and their ramifications for air, soil and water pollution. hands. While local citizens’ initiatives for greater sus- tainability are welcome, however, they cannot ignore These events and developments occurred on top of the global dimension of the issues at stake. lingering issues already impacting our world: envi- ronmental degradation, climate change, excessive Therefore, most of the NGOs that participated in the consumption, social injustice and the rise of populist 2015 Twinning exchange are already capable of provid- sentiment. ing expertise to governmental institutions and lobby on a national or regional political level. However, there were also positive developments, such as the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, However, what has become increasingly clear through- which resulted in a long-awaited agreement of the par- out the past years of the EU-China NGO exchange is ties to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Cel- that most of the topics NGOs in China and the EU are sius compared to pre-industrial levels. In addition, the working on cannot be resolved via actions that take United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustain- place within one individual country or region alone; it able Development (Agenda 2030), providing the signa- is important to understand the global intersections tory states with new global targets for development inherent in the creation of these problems and coop- and sustainability. erate transnationally. Long before 2015, citizens began to get involved in con- Let us take the waste problem as an example: People in fronting these global challenges. Emerging mostly at China and Europe alike are trying to fight marine debris the local level, civil society initiatives increasingly are through initiatives such as beach clean-ups, protest- taking matters such as sustainable consumption, waste ing against landfills and creating innovative Zero Waste reduction, the integration of marginalized groups and solutions. At the same time, European industrial states the fight against polluting industries into their own send a significant proportion of their waste to China. 4 Editor’s Note These intersections need to be addressed in order to Recently, thanks to years of mobilizing against climate create positive change. How can global warming ever change and against the use of fossil fuels, we are real- be tackled, for instance, without the involvement of izing how the world is actually a small place and people the world’s largest CO2 emitter? Finally, it became clear are united by the same
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