China
Rapid industrial development across China has polluted watersheds, devastated ecosystems, and compromised human health in countless communities. A young environmental movement is growing in scope, yet there is still an enormous need to establish trusted local organizations and stronger networks. The China Advisory Board is committed to building and supporting the infrastructure of this crucial environmental movement, enabling groups to work with communities and the government to tackle what in many areas is becoming an environmental crisis.
Visit the China Advisory Board Website.
Grantmaking Strategies
- Build the capacity of the environmental movement by establishing ‘resource centers’ across China
- Support under-served regions and groups.
- Support youth groups, such as the China Youth Climate Action Network (see ‘Grants’)
- Encourage transparency and information sharing
Board Prorities
Waters and rivers
Biodiversity
Conservation
Pollution and environmental health
Coastal protection
Energy and climate change
Countries
- China (408 grants)
- Japan (6 grants)
- South Korea (8 grants)
China Youth Climate Action Network
Grant #: 52-573
Amount: $3,600
Country: China
Focus: Climate ChangeThe China Youth Climate Action Network (CYCAN) is a coalition of seven different youth organizations that facilitates projects and activities related to sustainable energy and climate change mitigation. From the time Global Greengrants Fund provided CYCAN with its first two grants in 2008, the network has worked hard to build awareness among Chinese youth about global climate change and to empower their solutions. With this small grant, CYCAN surveyed the energy consumption of 16 universities and then initiated campus-based activities around climate change, spreading awareness and initiating change in university communities.
Dalian Environment
Grant #: 54-192
Amount: $15,000
Country: China
Focus: BiodiversityDalian Black Reef Coastal National Geologic Park has suffered from substantial garbage and sewage pollution. Dalian Environment organized beach clean-up days, monitored legal enforcement of pollution standards (from local industries), and held community seminars and environmental education programs with funding from Global Greengrants.
Green Hunan Alliance
Grant #: 53-404
Amount: $500
Country: China
Focus: WaterGreen Hunan Alliance works to promote environmental protection throughout China’s Hunan province. In particular, the group works to protect water resources and promote energy efficiency and pollution reduction at the community level. The organization used a small grant to investigate water pollution in the Xingjian River. It was then able to build a campaign to raise awareness about the river’s pollution levels among local citizens and the media.
Wu Haoliang
Coordinator
Wu Haoliang joined the China Advisory Board in 2003 as an advisor and began to serve as the Interim Coordinator since the end of 2010. He has been active in cultivating a student environmental movement in China and promoting civil society participation. He has rich experience in establishing and managing environmental NGOs and using the media and internet to promote the environmental work. He founded Green Stone, a regional youth environmental organization in Jiangsu Province in 2000, where he served as the Secretary General, Supervisor and later on its Board of Directors. In 2004, he co-founded and leads the Green Society Environmental Action Network (GSEAN), which is the largest and the most active online platform of youth environmental leaders and volunteers in China. He also serves on the Supervisory Team of China Youth Climate Action Network. He and his team have won many reorganizations, among which are two Ford Conservation and Environmental Grants and one SEE Ecological Prize. As a journalist working at the New Beijing Times for over five years, he also writes extensively on the environmental movement in China. Haoliang holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Nanjing University and a Master degree in International Law from Transnational law and Business University in Korea.
Song Li
Administrator
Song Li holds a Master degree in Linguistics from Beijing International Studies University. She has worked for various non-profit organizations over the past few years, including the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, and Prosperity Initiatives, where she worked as an international consultant and assisted in organizing international training workshops. Through making many trips to the bamboo areas in Zhejiang Province, she was extremely moved by the natural environment there and seeks to advocate for similar win-win situations for people and nature. Believing that a healthy environment is something everyone deserves to live in she is dedicated to working on furthering environmental causes in China and beyond.
Li Bing
Shanghai Green Oasis
Li Bing (also known as Eve Li) was a program manager of the China Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society based in Shanghai. Li has been involved in wildlife conservation in China since 1998, and has extensive experience in field surveys, environmental education, and program development. Her personal specialties include public education, management of nature reserves, and mitigating conflicts between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and endangered wildlife conservation (especially Siberian Tiger Conservation) in China.
Wen Bo
Independant Consultant
Wen Bo a Senior Fellow with Pacific Environment and the recipient of a three-year Pew Fellowship for his outstanding work in marine conservation. In 1991, he established Green Campus, the first student environmental group of its kind in mainland China. Wen Bo has also worked at Greenpeace China as the Beijing representative. He has a master’s degree from the KDI School of International Policy and Management in Seoul, South Korea, in which his thesis explored trans-boundary environmental issues in Asia. Wen Bo is based in Beijing, China.
Chang Cheng
Independent Consultant
Chang Cheng was a founder of Green Association, a student environmental group at University of International Business and Economics. He has worked on projects with Friends of Nature, Greenpeace, China Youth Alliance for Earth Day. During 1998-2000, he was a project officer with China Green Students Forum, and in 2003, served as an acting director of Xinjiang Conservation Fund. Now he is working at a Beijing based enterprise.
Qu Dong
Instutite for Civil Society, Sun Yat-sen University
Qu Dong is based in Guangdong Province, southern China, and is a well-established environmental leader. He is the Chief Executive of the Institute for Civil Society at Sun Yat-sen University, and heads its Capacity Building and Networking Program. With a background in law and experience directing several grassroots organizations, Qu Dong will strategically identify community groups to receive small grants from Greengrants. He will especially focus on organizations working to improve environmental health in southern China, where air and water pollution are serious concerns.
Yan Jiong
University of Sichuan
Yan Jiong has a PhD in environment and resource economics from Geog-August-University in Goettingen, Germany. She has been actively involved in the student environmental movement in China, and has participated in an international program investigating large-scale development’s social and environmental impacts in developing countries. She also helped develop the Peace Corps’ Environmental Education Program for China, and served as the Environmental Education Program Manager for Peace Corp China for two years. She currently lives in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Wu Xiaohong
RSPCA & EENOW
Wu Xiaohong is currently working for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal (RSPCA UK) as the China Education Consultant. She’s also the co-coordinator of the EENOW environmental education network. She participated in the training workshop provided by Peace Corp in 2002, and joined the Jane Goodall Institute (China) Roots & Shoots Programme as the communication officer 2003. She moved to Chengdu in 2005 to start the Roots & Shoots program there focusing on environmental education in rural areas of the southwest China. She received a MS. Degree on Zoology at the China West Normal University and has been serving as an environmental education consultant to many grassroots organizations.
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