SICP: An early environmental partnership

Begun in 2000, the Sino-Italian Cooperation Program for the Environmental Protection (SICP) has become an international model of a partnership effective in addressing the key solutions for the sustainable development and in leveraging public and private resources.

As work toward establishment of the program began at the end of the 1990s, China had started to draft its own domestic roadmap for environmental protection.

However, at an international level, few countries were ready to risk investment in the environmental cooperation in China.