On March 3rd 2008, the EU-China CDM Facilitation Project completed the second regional CDM workshop in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The workshop focused on the current situation in China for CDM and its future developments, CDM methodologies and their applicability in Hubei and CDM project implementation best practices.

The workshop was locally supported by the Hubei Provincial Service Center for CDM. Dr. Marco Gemmer, Project Officer at the European Delegation to China and Mongolia; Ms. Li Liyan, Deputy Director of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and Ms. Zhang Mengheng, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) took part in the discussion which was chaired by Dr. Ren Yong, Deputy Director General of the Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy of MEP. Approximately 80 local officials, service centre staff and project developers attended the event.

The Wuhan workshop is the second in a series of 10 regional workshops aimed at local Stakeholders and aims to provide training and knowledge sharing on different aspects of CDM. The next regional CDM workshop will be held in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province on April 17th 2008.