From August 31 to September 1, 2023, Zou Ji, CEO and President of Energy Foundation China (EF China), led a delegation to Shanxi Province to kick off a series of pollution reduction and carbon mitigation projects, in the presence of the government of Linfen City and the Department of Ecology and Environment of Shanxi Province.

On August 29, 2023, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Energy Foundation China (EF China), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institutes of Science and Development, co-organized on the sidelines of the 2023 annual general meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) an open forum on the theme of “Synergizing the Efforts on Climate Change and Forging the Path to Green Prosperity.”

Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) spoke of China’s achievements in advancing the green and decarbonization transition and expressed his expectation for China to play a bigger role in renewable energy and low carbon technologies, during his first visit to Beijing after the pandemic. As climate governance requires joint effort of all countries, he said IEA is willing to deepen the cooperation and exchange with China at the July 4 reception supported by Energy Foundation China and the Institute of Energy at Peking University.

Located in the Yellow River Basin and the Fenhe-Weihe Plains, Linfen City of Shanxi Province is also part of the greater Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, where the fight against air pollution has lasted decades.