1. Global Environmental Institute
Finding a Balance Between Conservation and Resource Use in China and Beyond
Lila Buckley
Global Environmental Institute
Hanoi, Vietnam
January 30, 2008 .

2. Opportunities for collaboration and meaningful sharing beyond Hanoi.
Who is GEI?
Experiences engaging hydropower company in biodiversity conservation in Sichuan.
Approach to Chinese companies development work outside of China, including in timber sector.
Opportunities for collaboration and meaningful sharing beyond Hanoi. .

3. Who are we? Global Environmental Institute Founded in 2004 Chinese NGO
Headquarters in Beijing
We aim to solve environmental problems using market-based solutions .

4. GEI and CSR
“To be a responsible power is not a mission of the government alone. Every enterprise, every civil organization and every member of society has a share in it.”
~ Jin Jiaman, GEI executive director .

5. GEI Program Updates GEI Programs Rural Sustainable Development
GEI Overview
Rural Sustainable
Development
Energy and
Climate Change
Biodiversity
Conservation
Energy and
Climate Change
Biodiversity
Conservation
GEI Program Updates
GEI
Programs
Capacity Building
Partnerships
Partnerships
Environmental
Governance .

6. Conservation Concessions and Incentive Agreements Project
Biodiversity
Conservation
Sichuan CCA
To localize conservation concessions for long-term protection of China’s biodiversity while also stimulating economic development.
Biodiversity
Conservation
Pilot Project: Sichuan, China . .

7. Conservation Concessions and Incentive Agreements Project
Biodiversity
Conservation
Background:
Biodiversity conservation vs. development. (Sichuan)
Need for viable livelihood options
for villagers.
Need for sustainable resource-use
tools and support for companies.
Conservation Concessions and Incentive Agreements offer both.
Sichuan CCA
Conservation
Concessions Project . . .

8. GEI’s Conservation Concession Model
Project 4:
CCA
GEI’s Conservation Concession Model
Conservation Concessions
PES $
Nature Reserve
Development Project Permission
Hydropower Station
CCA Agreement
GEI
Farmers
CCA Agreement
CCA Agreement
Sustainable Resource Use Training and Funds $

9. Sichuan CCA Project 4: CCA Conservation Concessions Project

10. Sichuan CCA Progress in 2007 Set up conservation development
Project 4:
CCA
Set up conservation development
fund: 100,000 Hydropower Company,
100,000 GEI, 150,000 Government.
Delivered 100 beehives to 20
households in two villages. Held
apiculture trainings.
Installed over 100 biogas systems in
project sites.
Education: Co-hosted workshop on
conservation concessions.
Sichuan CCA
Conservation
Concessions Project .

11. Sichuan CCA Project 4: CCA Conservation Concessions Project

12. What Makes GEI’s Approach
Different?
Biodiversity
Conservation
Not traditional aid program
Not traditional feel-good CSR
Not traditional policy-directed conservation.
This IS an innovative, financially sustainable approach to community development and corporate social and environmental responsibility.
Sichuan CCA
Conservation
Concessions Project .

13. GEI Program Updates China’s Going-Out
As Chinese companies now increasingly look
abroad for needed resources, challenges increase:
Same resource vs. development challenges
Lack of appropriate legislation (China & local)
Lack of socially and environmental responsibility
of developers or financers .
GEI Program Updates
Logging ban in China
Chinese timber companies
in South East Asia (GEI)
Capacity Building
Environmental
Governance

14. GEI Program Updates Expanding Approach
IPP Goal
Expanding Approach
Now developing an integrated policy package
for all Chinese enterprises operating overseas.
Goal is to expand these resource management
and financing models:
To mitigate the conflict between
major infrastructure development
and conservation goals of
resource-rich countries.
GEI Program Updates
Capacity Building
Environmental
Governance

15. GEI Program Updates Multi-Sector Approach: Integrated Policy:
IPP Approach
Multi-Sector
Approach:
Integrated
Policy:
Policy regulation of
companies
Lending criteria for
banks
Training for companies
PES
Conservation Incentive
Agreement for community
development.
Strategic EIA
Integrated Resources
Planning
GEI Program Updates
Capacity Building
Integrated Policy
Package

16. China’s Timber Sector:
Initial Work in
China’s Timber Sector:
Drafted, reviewed and published “Guidelines for Chinese Forestry Industry Practices Overseas.”
Forestry guidelines
Capacity Building
Complete Guidelines available at
Environmental
Governance

17. IPP Partnerships GEI Program Updates Working Together
We want to share our experiences in Sichuan
and with the forestry Guidelines. We are looking for opportunities for collaboration in:
Sharing information on policies and approaches
Implementing pilot projects in the Mekong (Community development + Chinese CSR)
Other complementary activities
(i.e. consumer education,
policy development, etc.)
GEI Program Updates
Capacity Building
Integrated Policy
Package

18. GEI Program Updates Thank You! Rural Sustainable Development
Energy and
Climate Change
Biodiversity
Conservation
GEI Program Updates
Thank You!
Capacity Building
Partnerships