NEXUS Carbon For Development

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NAME:

Global Environment Institute (GEI)

 Global Environment Institute
COUNTRY: China

History

The Global Environmental Institute (GEI) is a Chinese non-profit NGO that was established in Beijing, China in 2004, with 17 staffs now. Our mission is to design and implement market-based models for solving environmental problems in order to achieve development that is economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable.

Prizes/AwardsN/A
Partners/Networks ADB
Clinton Global Initiative
Energy 4 all partnership
Technologies: Domestic biogas
Household biogas projects
Improved charcoal kiln
Improved cookstove
Services

 

- Integrate environmental and economic problem-solving in China by building local and international collaboration between government   agencies, research institutions, private enterprises, and non-governmental organizations.

- Achieve self-sustaining and ecologically-sound rural development by linking local communities directly with outside partners in such areas as biodiversity conservation, bioremediation, renewable energy, and organic agriculture.

- Mitigate global warming and increase energy conservation by commercializing environmental technology, fostering sustainable enterprises, and developing innovative business and financing models.

- Develop the capacity of leaders and civil society to design, implement, and enforce socially and ecologically-sound development policy in rural, urban, and industrial sectors in China and around the world.

Nexus Projects N/A
Team17

Chongying Chen, Program officer-Rural Energy:

Chongying Chen (CC), program officer of rural energy in GEI, joined GEI since August 2010. CC is mainly responsible for developing CDM projects related to rural residential energy in China and doing a research on the impacts of rural energy consumption on climate change. CC worked in International Development Research Center (IDRC Singapore Office) from Jan 2009 to May 2010. She was mainly responsible there for undertaking a research on the impacts of forestry carbon projects on local households' livelihoods.