12 March 2019, Nairobi – During the fourth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-4), UN-Habitat and Tongji University launch the brochure of the report on Development Guidelines for Net Zero Carbon Villages in the Yangtze River Delta Region in China. The UN Under-Secretory-General and Executive Director of UN Habitat Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, the lead author of the report and Executive Vice President of Tongji University Prof. Wu Jiang have attended launch.

Written by the team of Prof. Wu Jiang and experts from UN Habitat, the report has developed 10 principles on energy demand and conversion, GHG emission, water, solid waste, energy-water-food-waste cycle, as well as providing employment and leisure, and make the village as living educational facility for raising ecological awareness. Providing the context of Yangtze River Delta in China, the report also studies on 5 cases in Xiebei and Xin’an Village of Chongming, Xinjian Community of Zhoushan, Meilin Village of Changzhou, and Shantan Village of Taizhou, trying to propose the development strategy of energy saving, energy efficiency and circular economy in this area, in order to achieve the target of a Net Zero Carbon town.