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Chinadialogue

Chinadialogue.net is the world's first fully bilingual Chinese-English website, devoted to fostering constructive dialogue on environmental and climate change issues between China and the world. It believes that the problems associated with climate change - species loss, pollution, water scarcity and environmental damage are not problems confined to one country alone, but concern all the world's citizens.

Chinadialogue believes that building effective solutions demands a shared effort based on a shared understanding, and for this reason Chinadialogue has established a common space, open to all. Chinadialogue's editor, Isabel Hilton, is a London based writer and broadcaster with a long experience of China. She is supported by editorial teams in London, Beijing and the United States and has established a network of partnerships to support Chinadialogue's work. Launched in July 2006, Chinadialogue is now read in more than 180 countries around the world and in all regions of China. Their contributors include Nobel prize winners George Akerlof, Al Gore and Wangari Maathai and leading thinkers from business, environment, NGO and policy circles. Chinadialogue publishes environmental journalism from China and around the world, and Chinadialogue's bilingual forum attracts comments from all sectors of society. Its articles are widely reproduced in Chinese media and on the Chinese web, and closely read by Western correspondents in China.

Chinadialogue is recognised as a respected, independent and influential voice that provides a bridge across the barriers of language and culture, between concerned citizens, policy-makers, experts and activists for the exchange of information, support and experience.

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Chinadialogue is funded by a range of institutional supporters, including several major charitable foundations and the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, chinadialogue's advisory board includes such leading figures as Pan Jiahua, of CASS, the former Hong Kong governor and EU Commissioner, Lord Patten of Barnes, the eminent environmental thinker, Sir Crispin Tickell, prominent Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun and the pioneering environmental lawyer Wang Canfa.

Link: www.Chinadialogue.net

CITRIS - The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society - CITRIS - is a scientific collaboration among industrial researchers from over 60 corporations, and more than 300 faculty members and thousands of students from numerous departments at four campuses of the University of California (Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz). Together the many diverse research groups innovate new IT-based solutions to many of the concerns that face all of us today, from monitoring the environment and finding viable, sustainable energy alternatives to simplifying health care delivery and developing secure systems for electronic medical records and remote diagnosis, all of which will ultimately boost economic productivity. CITRIS has a rich tradition of seeding new research, expanding industry partnerships, developing and strengthening its physical and cyber infrastructures, and increasing its collaboration efforts. These efforts will continue to grow as CITRIS embraces an expanding alliance of international collaborations. In particular, the CITRIS / Copenhagen Climate Council Climate Navigator will embody a joint, web-based program of information distillation and dissemination, as well as a portal of some of the most important climate and energy modeling and roadmapping efforts in the world.

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CITRIS' funding comes from a combination of sources: state funds, industrial gifts, and UC campus funds.

Link: www.citris-uc.org

Energy Crossroads

Energy Crossroads (EC) is an international network of students advancing clean energy solutions. Starting as a conference about Green Energy at Stanford University, California, EC is now a global organization with departments in Stanford, Copenhagen and Singapore - and with more coming in China, India, East and South Africa, and soon other locations around the world.

The mission of Energy Crossroads is to mobilize a coalition of "rising young leaders from across sectors, disciplines, and countries to advance clean energy as a unifying solution to national security, environmental, and economic challenges." According to EC, whether one is a tree-hugging environmentalist, a national security hawk, or a clean-tech entrepreneur, we all have a stake in a cleaner, more secure, and more prosperous energy future. The activities of Energy Crossroads are thus designed to engage, educate, and empower students and EC community members to deliver clean energy solutions.

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Energy Crossroads is supported by comitted universities along with corporate and public sponsors and partners.

Link: www.energycrossroads.org

Globe International

The UK-based Globe International was founded in 1989 as an inter-parliamentary group between the US Congress and European Parliament. Its purpose is to facilitate high level dialogues as well as informal discussions on key environmental issues, such as climate change, connecting legislators with international business leaders and civil society representatives. GLOBE thereby seeks to smooth the progress of common understanding, and to promote the development of personal and professional relationships between individual parliamentary leaders. For example, GLOBE has established a parallel Dialogue for legislators, business leaders and key civil society representatives to shadow the G8+5 discussion on climate change through to 2008. GLOBE's Tokyo forum in June 2008 culminated in consensus agreement by the G8+5 delegations of legislators on a post-2012 climate change framework. This paper, authored and negotiated by Lord Michael Jay (Tony Blair's G8 Sherpa in 2005 and 2006), was presented, together with working group papers on Adaptation, Biofuels, Energy Efficiency, Market Mechanisms and Technology, to the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda ahead of the G8 Summit in Toyako. The papers can be found on the GLOBE website (see link below). GLOBE is working closely with the Italian G8 team to prepare for an ambitious G8 summit in 2009 and will be hosting G8+5 legislators' forums in Rome in June 2009, just ahead of the Italian G8 Summit, and in Copenhagen in October 2009, just ahead of COP15. GLOBE International's president is currently Rt Hon Elliot Morley MP who also serves as the UK Prime Minister's Special Representative. Mr Morley was previously an environment minister in the UK for 9 years.

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GLOBE International receives support from Governments, Inter-governmental bodies such as the World Bank and also from corporate membership of GLOBE's policy themed Dialogues.

Link: www.globeinternational.org

UN Global Compact

The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies in order to build markets, combat corruption, safeguard the environment and ensure social inclusion. By doing so, business, as a primary agent driving globalization, can and do help ensure that markets, commerce, technology, and finance advance in ways that benefit climate, economies and societies everywhere, and so far the activities have resulted in unprecedented partnerships and openness among business, government, civil society, labour and the United Nations. The UN Global Compact today stands as the largest corporate citizenship and sustainability initiative in the world - with over 5500 corporate participants and stakeholders from over 130 countries.

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Being a UN-initiated programme, the Foundation for the Global Compact has been established to raise funds on behalf of the UN Global Compact Office. Beneficiaries are private corporations.

Link: www.unglobalcompact.org

Caring for Climate

Caring for Climate is a voluntary and complementary action platform for those UN Global Compact participants who seek to demonstrate leadership on the issue of climate change. It provides a framework for business leaders to advance practical solutions and help shape public policy as well as public attitudes. Chief executive officers who support the statement are prepared to set goals, develop and expand strategies and practices, and to publicly disclose emissions within the framework of the Communications on Progress. Caring for Climate was launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Global Compact Leaders Summit on 5-6 July 2007 in Geneva with the support of the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. In October 2008, Caring for Climate had the support of 285 companies including major players from emerging markets.

http://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/news_events/8.1/caring_for_climate.pdf

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development. The WBCSD, which has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, was founded on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and today comprises some 200 members drawn from more than 35 countries and 20 major industrial sectors, involving some 1,000 business leaders globally. The purpose of the WBCSD is to provide a platform for companies to explore sustainable development, share knowledge, experiences and best practices, and to advocate business positions on these issues in a variety of forums, working with governments, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations.