Centre for International Governance Innovation sent 5 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

https://www.cigionline.org/

"We are the Centre for International Governance Innovation: an independent, non-partisan think tank with an objective and uniquely global perspective. Our research, opinions and public voice make a difference in today’s world by bringing clarity and innovative thinking to global policy making. By working across disciplines and in partnership with the best peers and experts, we are the benchmark for influential research and trusted analysis.

Our research programs focus on governance of the global economy, global security and politics, and international law in collaboration with a range of strategic partners and support from the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, as well as founder Jim Balsillie.

VISION
CIGI strives to be the world's leading think tank on international governance, with recognized impact on significant global problems.

MISSION
CIGI will build bridges from knowledge to power by conducting world-leading research and analysis, and influencing policy makers to innovate.

BELIEFS
CIGI believes that better international governance can improve the lives of people everywhere, by increasing prosperity, ensuring global sustainability, addressing inequality and safeguarding human rights, and promoting a more secure world."

Funding:

"Long‐term Endowment Fund

The Fund was created with initial private donations from CIGI founder, Jim Balsillie (approximately $20 million) and other donors, matched in 2003 by the federal government of Canada ($30 million). Investment income from the Endowment Fund is recognized in the Operating Fund.

Campus Fund

The Fund was created with $50 million from governments of Ontario and Canada to build the CIGI Campus and to house schools and research programs including the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Funding was matched with an additional $50 million from CIGI founder, Jim Balsillie.

The fund earns investment income and rental income from the University of Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier University and other tenants."

Also:

"CORE FUNDING SUPPORTERS
The City of Waterloo
The Government of Canada
The Government of Ontario
Jim Balsillie
Mike Lazaridis
The Woerner Family
Michael Barnstijn and Louise MacCallum"

Use "climate" as a key word to search their website, and (currently) 1,473 items meet your search query. They seem to be pretty much uniformly alarmist, e.g.

Conference: "Geoengineering our Climate"

Climate: Is Revolution Justified?

Canadian courts could face climate-change cases in wake of Dutch ruling

Disclosure of Climate-related Financial Information: Time for Canada to Act

Can Canada Step into the Breach? Addressing Climate-related Financial Risk and Growing Green Finance
CIGI Policy Brief No. 110

Achieving Climate Change Goals Through Climate Litigation

etc, etc, etc.

Delegates:

Ms. Oonagh Fitzgerald, Director, International Law Research Program (ILRP), Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI):

"As director of CIGI’s International Law Research Program, Oonagh Fitzgerald established and oversees CIGI’s international law research agenda, which includes policy relevant research on issues of international economic law, environmental law, intellectual property law and innovation, and Indigenous law.

She has extensive experience as a senior executive in the federal government, providing legal policy, advisory and litigation services, and strategic leadership in international law, national security, public law, human rights and governance.

As national security coordinator for the Department of Justice Canada from 2011 to 2014, Oonagh ensured strategic leadership and integration of the department’s policy, advisory and litigation work related to national security. From 2007 to 2011, she served as the Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces legal adviser, leading a large, full-service corporate counsel team for this globally engaged, combined military and civilian institution. Before this, Oonagh served as acting chief legal counsel for the Public Law Sector of the Department of Justice and special adviser for International Law.

Oonagh served as assistant secretary Legislation, House Planning/Counsel at the Privy Council Office from 2000 to 2003. Prior to this, she held various positions in the Department of Justice: senior general counsel and director general, Human Resources Development Canada Legal Services Unit; general counsel and director, International Law and Activities Section; senior counsel for Regulatory Reform; and legal adviser, Human Rights Law Section. She began her legal career at the Law Reform Commission of Canada, the Competition Bureau and the Immigration Appeal Board.

Oonagh has taught in the faculties of Law and Business Administration at the University of Ottawa, as well as in the Department of Law at Carleton University, l’Institut international du droit de l’homme in Strasbourg, France, and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy.

Oonagh has a B.F.A. (honours) from York University (1977). She obtained her LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School (1981), and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1983. She obtained an LL.M. from the University of Ottawa (1990), a doctorate of juridical science (S.J.D.) from the University of Toronto (1994) and an M.B.A. from Queen’s University (2007)."

Ms. Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty:

"Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty is a post-doctoral fellow with CIGI’s International Law Research Program. While at CIGI, she will examine the governance structures addressing global commons environmental issues. Timiebi’s research will focus on the role of technology solutions and analyze the evolving legal principles that would be required to regulate the use of emerging and high technologies in the fight against climate change.

Prior to joining CIGI, Timiebi was executive director of the World Space Week Association (WSWA), coordinating the global response to the UN declaration that World Space Week should be celebrated annually from October 4 to 10. For her work at the WSWA she received an International Astronautical Federation’s Young Space Leaders 2017 Award. She was also a space policy consultant with the Montreal-based consultancy Euroconsult, and a legal and international cooperation officer at the Nigerian Space Research and Development Agency. Timiebi is called to the Nigerian Bar.

Timiebi holds a D.CL. and an LL.M. in aviation and space law from McGill University. Her doctoral research was focused on the concept of “common benefit” and received the George S. and Ann K. Robinson Space Law Prize for exhibiting advanced research capabilities and original contribution to space jurisprudence. She has an M.Sc. in space management from the International Space University, Strasbourg, France, and an LL.B. from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom."

Mr. Ling Chen:

"Ling Chen is a research associate with CIGI’s International Law Research Program (ILRP). He is currently working on international environmental law and climate change, with a focus on the market-based approaches and transparency framework under the Paris Agreement. He also provides research and analysis on China’s legislation and policies on environment, climate change and intellectual property, and their relation to international law. Previously, Ling was an ILRP research assistant from March to December 2016.

Ling holds an LL.M. from the University of Toronto, where his thesis was focused on the responsibility to protect doctrine and international disaster response. He holds an LL.B. and a B.A. (double degree in English), and an LL.M. in international law from Beihang University in Beijing. He has a certificate in public international law from The Hague Academy of International Law, and a certificate in Taiwan’s legal system from National Chengchi University in Taipei.

Ling’s research interests also include international trade regulations, international human rights law, and air and space law. He has published articles and co-translated books both in Chinese and English. He received the Certificate of Legal Professional Qualification of China in 2012."

Ms. Patricia Galvao Ferreira, Postdoctoral Fellow, International Law Research Program:

"Patrícia G. Ferreira is a fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Law Foundation of Ontario Scholar at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, where she teaches international environmental law and Canadian environmental law. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow with CIGI’s International Law Research Program, researching international climate change law. Patrícia specializes in international law and global governance, with a focus on the transnational regulation of environment and natural resources. She is particularly interested in how the rising influence of emerging economies like China, India and Brazil are reshaping transnational law and challenging existing approaches to understand global justice.

Previously, Patrícia was the Joaquim Nabuco Chair in Brazilian studies at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University and a visiting scholar at the FGV Law School in Sao Paulo. She holds an S.J.D. in law and development from the University of Toronto, which she earned concurrently with an interdisciplinary doctorate in the dynamics of global change from the Munk School of Global Affairs. She has an LL.B. from the Federal University of Bahia and an LL.M. from the University of Notre Dame. Before earning her doctoral degree, she worked for thirteen years in the fields of human rights, economic justice and international development, in Brazil and in Southern Africa. She is the author of various publications on climate finance, the principle of differentiation in international environmental law and climate justice."

Ms. Kristy-Lynn Smith, Communications Advisor, International Law Research Program, Centre for International
Governance Innovation (CIGI):

"Kristy Smith is the communications advisor for the International Law Research Program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), where she specializes in strategic communications, public relations and stakeholder engagement.

Prior to joining CIGI, Kristy worked as a communications and marketing specialist for NSF International, a global public health organization. There, she liaised with government, industry experts and internal staff to communicate changing policies and facilitate knowledge exchange in the areas of sustainability, health sciences and global food supply chains. She has also worked as a digital marketing specialist for the technology start-up, ClevrU, and has taken on a number of freelance projects in the scope of writing, editing and design. An active member in the Waterloo Region community, Kristy served a two-year term as the elected vice chair of the Arts & Culture Committee for the City of Kitchener. She holds an honours bachelor of arts from Western University and a post-graduate certificate in corporate communications and public relations from Fanshawe College."

Lots of lawyers at the moment, lots of them to do with Canada. Centre for International Sustainable Development Law sent 7 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

http://www.cisdl.org/index.php

"The mission of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) is to promote legal education relating to sustainable societies and the protection of ecosystems by advancing the understanding, development and implementation of international sustainable development law.

The CISDL is governed by a distinguished Board of Governors, and relies upon a roster of learned international advisors for guidance. The CISDL has a Senior Director, 9 Lead Counsel (leading six different legal research programmes, plus three with responsibility for cross-cutting governance and accountability initiatives) and senior research fellows (tenured professors, justices and senior legal professionals), legal research fellows (academics and legal professionals) and associate fellows (graduate and law students). It has a small international secretariat, based at the McGill Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi Faculty of Law, University of Chile Faculty of Law and University of Cambridge Faculty of Law.

CISDL members include learned jurists and scholars from all regions of the world, and a diversity of legal traditions. Through a competitive annual process, the CISDL selects Associate Fellows, Legal Research Fellows and Senior Research Fellows, who are holders of the associated privileges and obligations of membership.

As a result of its ongoing legal scholarship and research, the CISDL publishes books, articles, working papers and legal briefs in English, Spanish and French. The CISDL hosts academic workshops, dialogue sessions, legal expert panels parallel to international negotiations, law courses and seminar series, and conferences to further its legal research agenda. It provides instructors, lecturers and capacity-building materials for developing country governments and international organisations in national and international law in the field of sustainable development, and works with countries to develop national laws to implement international treaties in these areas.

CISDL Relationships with Key Partners
The CISDL collaborates closely with the Law Faculty of McGill University in engaging students and interested faculty members in sustain­able development law research and scholarly initiatives. The CISDL also works in cooperation with a network of developing country faculties of law, and is developing closer ties with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law through the LCIL and the Université de Montreal through the CERIUM. It has guidance from three multilateral treaty secretariats, the World Bank Legal Vice-Presidency, the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Development Programme. It maintains a memorandum of understanding with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO). Leading CISDL members serve as expert delegates on the International Law on Sustainable Develop­ment Committee of International Law Association.

With the International Law Association (ILA) and the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO), under the auspices of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UN CSD), CISDL chairs a Partnership Initiative, ‘International Law for Sustainable De­velopment’ that was launched in Johannesburg at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development, to build knowledge, analysis and capacity about international law on sustainable development.

CISDL Location
The CISDL is based at 3644 Peel St., Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A1W9, in offices lent to it by the McGill University Faculty of Law by reason of the involvement of students, graduates and faculty members in its activities. The CISDL also has subsidiary offices at the University of Cambridge, the University of Costa Rica, and the University of Chile."

Delegates:

Ms. Marie Claire Cordonier Segger, Director:

"Professor Dr Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, DPhil (Oxon) MEM (Yale) BCL and LLB (McGill), BA Hons, is a distinguished professor, scholar and expert jurist in law and governance on sustainable development.

She serves as Senior Director of the CISDL in a pro bono academic capacity, where she mentors CISDL lawyers and fellows, and guides new international legal scholarship and education. She is also a Full Professor of Law (part-time) at the University of Waterloo and Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Canada; and Fellow and Advisor of the Centre for Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG) and Affiliated Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) in the University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on law and governance regimes related to climate change; natural resources and biodiversity management; investment, trade and the green economy; among other emerging sustainable development challenges. She received the 2016 international Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum Award for her leadership on behalf of future generations, among other international awards and honours.

Professor Cordonier Segger has edited/authored 20 books and 120+ papers in five languages, edits the Cambridge University Press Implementing Treaties on Sustainable Development Series, and serves on the Editorial Boards of 6 law journals. As an expert jurist, she is active in international sustainable development debates. She advises United Nations treaty negotiations and organizations, serving as Executive Secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Chair of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Biodiversity Law & Governance Initiative. She is Rapporteur for the International Law Association’s Committee on Sustainable Resources Management; Chair of the World Bank Law Justice and Development’s Climate Law Community of Practice; and member of various Boards of Directors and Foundations. She holds a DPhil in International Law from the University of Oxford, a Masters of Environmental Management with a specialization in economics, law and policy summa cum laude from Yale University, two law degrees distinction from McGill University, and an interdisciplinary BA honours from Carleton University and the University of Victoria.

Prof Cordonier Segger’s publications include the law text book Sustainable Development Law (OUP) with Dr A Khalfan, Sustainable Development in International Courts and Tribunals (Routledge) with HE Justice CG Weeramantry, Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (Kluwer Law International) with Prof M Gehring; Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (Wolters Kluwer) with Profs M Gehring and A Newcombe; Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CUP) with F Perron-Welch and C Frison; and Sustainable Justice: Integrating Economic, Social and Environmental Law (Martinus Nijhoff) with HE Justice CG Weeramantry, former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the World Bank Legal Review 5, the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law, the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law and the Nigeria Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, among others. Her most recent book projects, Athena’s Treaties: Crafting Economic Accords for Sustainable Development (OUP, sb) and Implementing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (CUP, fc) focus on innovative legal instruments to tackle the global Sustainable Development Goals. From 2009-2016, Prof Cordonier Segger served as a permanently appointed International Professor in University of Chile Law School, Teaching Fellow in Yale University; Course Convenor at the University of Oxford; and Visiting Professor/ Lecturer in the Universities of Cambridge, McGill, Victoria, Montreal, Costa Rica and Kisangani, DRC. She chairs international conferences, symposia, courses and other educational endeavors on law and sustainable development, and has successfully confirmed and completed many international research grants and projects over the years.

Prof Cordonier Segger also holds 20 years of international treaty negotiations, research and capacity-building experience that spans 79 countries of the Americas, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. She recently served as Senior Legal Advisor to the Presidency of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (CoP22); Senior Legal Advisor to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance; Senior Legal Expert, Sustainable Development and Head of the Economic Growth and Trade Department for the International Development Law Organization (IDLO); Senior Research Associate for the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); and Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). She is a Councilor of the World Future Council, and chairs several international Experts Commissions. She also serves on the Boards of the International Law Association (Canada), the Trust for Sustainable Living, and the Gonthier Legacy Committee. She is a member of the Canadian Bar Association with practice in both civil and the common law systems, fluent in English, French and Spanish, and also speaks basic Portuguese, Italian and German. For the Canadian government, over the years, she has served as Senior Policy Advisor and Manager, Governance & Stakeholder Relations in Environment and Climate Change Canada; Assistant Director, International Affairs in Canada’s Natural Resources Ministry; and Senior Director of Research for Sustainable Prosperity, in Canada’s green economy law, economics and policy knowledge network, among other roles.

From 2002-2012, she chaired a joint CISDL - ILA - IDLO Partnership on International Law for Sustainable Development that was launched at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, is profiled by the United Nations Environment Programme in their global 'Who's Who of Women and the Environment', has twice been appointed to an AVINA Fellowship, and has held several valuable international awards including a Chevening and a SSHRC Fellowship for her PhD in International Law at Oxford University (Exeter College)."

Mr. Markus Gehring, Lead Counsel, International Trade, Investment and Competition Law:

"Dr Markus W. Gehring is Lead Counsel for Trade, Investment and Financial Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL). He also serves as a Jean Monnet Chair in Sustainable Development Law with the Centre. He is a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and a Fellow in Law at Hughes Hall. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (CEENRG) and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL).

Before joining Cambridge Law, he was a Lecturer in International and European Law at the Centre of International Studies, Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLIS) and Fellow in Law at Cambridge University (Robinson College). He has been a visiting professor in several universities around the globe and was associated as professor with the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section. He holds an MA from Cambridge, an LL.M from Yale, a Dr jur from Hamburg and a J.S.D from Yale. He is a member of the Frankfurt Bar, a member of the Ontario Bar, and a former associate member of the Brussels Bar. He represented the CISDL at several World Trade Organization Ministerial Conferences over the last 15 years; as well as at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development and various other international negotiations. He is a member of the International Law Association, German Branch, and serves on the ILA Committee on International Law on Natural Resources. He served on the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy for Environmental Law and on their Scholarship Committee. He is a member of the IUCN Environmental Law Commission and has conducted several high profile research projects.

Prior to joining academia, Dr Gehring practiced European Competition and International Trade law at Cleary Gottlieb in their Brussels office. He was Tutor in Public International Law at the Oxford University Faculty of Law (University and other Colleges) and a legal researcher with Prof. Vaughan Lowe (All Souls College). He also taught German Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Germany, and was legal fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, where he edited the BRIDGES Journal legal column. Dr Gehring has published widely on sustainable development law. He is the author/editor of several books including with MC Cordonier Segger, Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (Kluwer Law International, 2005) and with J Hepburn and MC Cordonier Segger World Trade Law in Practice (Globe Publishing, 2007). His other legal research focuses on the constitutional dimensions of European and international trade law, and sustainable development law at the intersection of international economic, environmental and social development law"

Mr. German Andres Guberman:

"Germán Andres Guberman is a senior undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, currently studying at the Institut de Sciences Politiques de Paris. He focuses in political science and international development, with law school in his near future. His research interests and objectives lie in the intersection between international commercial law, sustainability and human rights."

Ms. Meredith Jeanne Keller:

"Meredith Keller holds an M.Phil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. (Hons) in Political Science, History, and Environmental Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research and career interests revolve around the role non-state and subnational actors are playing in addressing climate change at both the international and local levels. Prior to her graduate work, Meredith spent 10 years in NGO and political organizing – most recently as the Environmental Initiatives director at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. There, she led the Waters of Wisconsin and Climate & Energy Initiatives, launched the annual Local Government Summit on Energy & Resilience, and co-authored several policy reports on the state of Wisconsin’s natural resources. Before the Academy, she led the Minnesota Waters Program at Conservation Minnesota, which included working with citizens’ groups and state agencies to control the spread of aquatic invasive species. She dedicated two years to its Reading Corps Program in Minnesota before working on a Senatorial race in 2008. While a student in at UW-Madison, Keller worked as a research assistant for two professors, and finally as the Student Director at the UW-Madison Office of Sustainability."

Mr. André Laperrière, Executive Director, CODAN:

"During his career, Mr. Laperrière has led/managed numerous large scale projects on behalf of Private Corporations and subsequently, within the United Nations.

He has extensive work experience in the Americas, Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, in particular in developing countries and in conflict/post conflict environments.

Currently he is the first Executive Director of the Global Open Data initiative for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), a global Secretariat conceived by the G8 to stimulate innovation and productivity in global agriculture and nutrition.

Prior to GODAN, Mr Laperrière has been Deputy CEO in the Global Environment Facility (GEF) at the World Bank, Director General of the Global Trust Council (GTC), a Sweden-based international organization and held various senior positions in the United Nations Common System.

In this context he played a senior role in the design and the implementation of major reforms in agencies such as the International Criminal Court (ICC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF.

Among other positions, Mr. Laperrière has been the first Executive Director of the Trust Fund for Victims at the ICC, Director of the Administration and Finance Division in WHO, and Coordinator for all reconstruction and rehabilitation activities under the responsibility of UNICEF in Iraq.

Prior to his career in the UN, Mr. Laperrière was Director in the International Services of Price Waterhouse. In this position, he led numerous development, privatization, mergers and structural reform projects in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Caribbean.

Mr. Laperrière is an expert in international development.

Spécialisations : International Development, Information Systems, Emergency, Policies, negotiation, organizational development, HR, Economics, International Law."

Ms. Alexandra Scott, MPhil Candidate, Land Economy, University of Cambridge:

"Alexandra Scott an M.Phil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge and a BA and BSc from the University of Western Australia in political and environmental sciences. Her research interest lies in local government roles in driving energy system decarbonisation within multi-level governance systems. Alex currently coordinates the Climate Law and Governance Initiative as a research fellow and assistant Programme Manager of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law’s Climate Programme. She also works in national climate change policy in the United Kingdom. Alex has previously worked in local government environmental policy, environmental consulting, and environmental and human rights advocacy in Australia."

Ms. Florentina Anna Simlinger:

"Florentina Simlinger is currently studying law as well as social and cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna and expects to graduate in autumn 2017. She has competed at the 2017 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and will commence her work as research assistant of Prof. Reinisch at the Section of International Law and International Relations (University of Vienna) in September 2017. She is interested in international environmental law, as well as international investment law and the law of state responsibility. As of 2016 she has been researching on the legal consequences of climate change and Loss and Damage at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and has been writing a book chapter on Loss and Damage in co-authorship, which will be published by Springer in autumn 2017."

Apr 25, 2018 at 8:02 PM | Mark Hodgson

Do all these vacancies for Lawyers get advertised in the Legal press, or are they only advertised in the special needs sections of magazines for academics without practical working experience?

gc, I've long since given up on reading the job adverts in the legal press, since I'm not looking for a job, but I don't remember this sort of thing in the days when I WAS looking. Maybe times have changed (for the worse), or maybe these jobs are touted around in academia, which seems to be where most of these people have spent a lot of time. Group think seems to be the order of the day.

Centre for Science and Environment sent 2 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

https://www.cseindia.org/

"Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi.

CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable.

We believe that the scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. This is what we aim to do.

The challenge, as we see it, is two-pronged. On one hand, millions live within a biomass-based subsistence economy at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, the opportunity to bring about change is enormous. But it will need a commitment to reform in the way we do business with local communities.

On the other hand, rapid industrialisation is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth.

This is the challenge of the balance.

Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and – more importantly – in pushing for answers and transforming these into policy and so, practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications.

We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.

Our efforts are built around five broad programmes:

Communication for Awareness
CSE’s publications and informational products have been its strength and they have always combined research and readability to get the message across.

CSE’s tools for awareness raising are periodicals, publications, films/short spots, briefing papers, exhibitions, posters and other products. CSE’s informational products reach people in more diverse ways such as features service, website and e-news bulletins.

Research and Advocacy
CSE’s efforts are specifically designed to create awareness about problems and propose sustainable solutions. Research at CSE often consists of in-depth learning about an environmental problem and then finding answers in accordance with CSE’s core values.

Education and Training
There is a growing interest amongst professionals, public administrators, private sector executives NGO professionals, students and others in environmental issues. With this in mind, CSE, has for some years, been developing programmes in the area on non-formal environmental education programmes.

Knowledge Portal
The overall aim is to develop into an excellent resource centre with information -- printed and visual -- on sustainable development issues, which is possibly the best in India. For a knowledge-based organisation like CSE, information collection is the basic foundation for all its research and advocacy activities.

Pollution Monitoring
CSE’s Pollution Monitoring Laboratory is an independent, analytical laboratory that monitors toxic contamination of the environment and uses the results of this monitoring to advocate for improved regulation of the use of toxins in the country."

2016/17:

"List of donors
1. Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency (SIDA)
2. Bread for the World
3. MacArthur Foundation
4. Oak Foundation
5. DanChurchAid
6. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Limited (HSBC)
7. HeinrichBoll Foundation
8. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale
Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ)
9. Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
10. CAF India
11. Royal Norwegian Embassy
12. IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
13. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
14. British Academy
15. Misereor
16. Ministry of Urban Development, Government of
India
17. Department of Environment, Government of Delhi
18. Ministry of Environment and Forests/ Central
Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
19. Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government
of India
20. World Bank
21. Dr Kamla Chowdhry Endowment
22. Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur."

Many of the usual suspects, in other words.

Their website has a big section devoted to climate, but it seems strangely out of date (eg, they have a report on COPS 1-21, but nothing about COPS 22 or 23).

Delegates:

Mr. Chandra Bhushan:

"handra Bhushan is an expert on environmental and climate geo-politics, industrial pollution, energy and the political economy of natural resource extraction -- subjects which he has extensively researched and written on. He holds degrees in civil engineering and environmental planning and technology."

Ms. Vijeta Rattani, Deputy Programme Manager, Climate Change Programme:

She authors for this website:

http://www.downtoearth.org.in/author/vijeta-rattani-2325

Perhaps not surprisingly it contains a lot of climate change propaganda and concerned articles. She has a lot of stuff on the internet, e.g. this:

http://cdn.cseindia.org/userfiles/kc-vijeta.pdf

Apr 26, 2018 at 7:57 PM | Mark Hodgson

I don't mean to single out the Centre for Science and Environment, but they are at least logical in the way they set out their scheme. It follows the same template as most.

1.Communication for Awareness.
Does this actually mean anything of significance or substance?

2. Research and Advocacy 
So they have to create awareness about the issues they had previously communicated, learn about issues they do not understand, presumably fail to solve the problems, and talk some more

3. Education and Training. They talk to others about what they don't understand.

4. Knowledge Portal. They haven't really got one yet, but if they keep talking about it, who knows?

5. Pollution Monitoring. They have a laboratory. This COULD be useful, but they need some data records before they can identify any trends or causes.

Apart from talking, and talking about what they could talk about next, assuming they have been trained to know what they are talking about, what do they do? Have they ever achieved anything? NO!

The sooner US Taxpayer's money is cut off, the sooner other Governments will realise how much money has been taken from them, without anything to show for it.

gc, no need to single them out, they're just typical of who and what are behind attendance at 23 COPs to date. It's getting more than a little tedious now, but I keep ploughing through them, as I find it astonishing at the number of overlapping and repetitious charitable or government-funded organisations there are out there,most of whom achieve little or nothing of any use, though they're obviously sure they're performing vitally important work.

Probably hundreds of thousands of people are employed directly or indirectly by these organisations, many enjoying fine lifestyles and much foreign travel (oh, the irony) on the back of it. Some go from organisation to organisation, making a life-time career of "sourcing green funds" or networking or propagandising. No doubt most if not all of them have a nice warm glow from believing their work is essential to "saving the planet."

Imagine how much good could be achieved if these enormous sums were diverted to really useful good works!

Centre International de droit Comparé de l'Environnement [International Centre for Comparative Environmental Law] sent 6 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

https://cidce.org/

"The International Center for Comparative Environmental Law (CIDCE) is an INGO (French scientific association governed by the law of 1 July 1901) and was created in Limoges (FRANCE) in 1982. It was created following the Center for Compared Law Studies in Strasbourg. It is an organization that is composed of environmental lawyers. It is hosted by the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Environmental Law, Land and Urban Development (CRIDEAU), thematic team équipe of the OMIJ-EA 3177, Faculté de droit et des sciences économiques, of the University of Limoges.

Since 2005, the CIDCE has received support from the Limousin region, from 2016 part of a larger Nouvelle Aquitaine Region, through the instrument of an “associative job.”

The CIDCE has observer status with the Barcelona Convention for the protection of the marine environment and the coastline of the Mediterranean and its protocols (UNEP – 2001). In 2004, CIDCE became an observer of the ESPOO Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context and the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters of the United Nations Economic Commission of Europe.

The CIDCE is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), created in 1948 and reuniting over 1,000 member organizations and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The IUCN’s mission is to influence companies worldwide to encourage and help the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. In the framework of international conventions, it has helped over 75 countries to prepare and implement their national strategies for conservation and biodiversity. IUCN is a global organization with 1,000 employees in 44 countries, including a hundred based at headquarters in Gland (Switzerland).

Since 2010, the CIDCE has been a member of the NGO CIVILSCAPE, an international network dedicated to promoting the European Landscape Convention.

The CIDCE helped create the African Society for Environmental Law (SADE) and the European Association of Environmental Law (AEDE), which it helped constitute."

Perhaps inevitably:

"United Nations Special Consultative Status ECOSOC international non-governmental organization since 2015

Observer Status with the United Nations Environment Assembly and its subsidiary bodies since 2017

Observer Status with the Minamata Convention on Mercury".

Mission:

“Bringing together environmental lawyers from around the world to help the advancement of environmental law at international and regional meetings and conferences”

Delegates:

Mr. Bruno Verdini, Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

"As Director of the MIT-Harvard Mexico Negotiation Program, under the mentorship of Professor Lawrence Susskind, Dr. Verdini is leading the creation and development of an Executive Negotiation Teaching and Training Program. The mission is to further support the skills and strategies available to public, private, and non-profit sector stakeholders involved in natural resource management negotiations in Mexico, fostering effective transition and planning, addressing the impacts associated with the siting of infrastructure, and improving resilience in the face of climate change.

Dr. Verdini received MIT’s first ever interdisciplinary and interdepartmental Ph.D. in Negotiation, Communication, Diplomacy, and Leadership. His work, which explores how to improve transboundary natural resource management negotiations, won the 2015 Harvard Law School Award for the best research in negotiation, competitive decision-making, mediation, and dispute resolution. Selected from across diverse fields of study, including business, economics, law, government, and psychology, this is the first time that the annual award has been given to an MIT alumnus, as well as the first time it has been awarded to someone from Latin America.

During his time at MIT, Dr. Verdini has conducted work at the MIT Science Impact Collaborative and the MIT Environmental Policy and Planning Group. His latest research, to be published as a book in 2017, explores the negotiation and decision-making strategies by which government, corporate, and non-profit practitioners focusing on water can effectively increase river-basin supply, re-think the possibilities of irrigation and storage infrastructure, and restore ecosystems and habitats. Simultaneously, the book offers insights for energy resource management to enhance coordination between publicly traded and state owned companies, improve the adoption of new technologies, and re-define the scope and impact of diplomatic partnerships between developed and developing countries.

Prior to coming to MIT, Dr. Verdini was Deputy Director for International Affairs at Mexico’s Ministry of Energy, where he was involved in the negotiations regarding the Ministerial meetings of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Atomic Nuclear Agency (IAEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the International Energy Forum (IEF), the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Latin America and Caribbean Energy Organization (OLADE), and the World Economic Forum (WEF). He was involved as well with the teams negotiating financial, technical, and scientific cooperation agreements with Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and the World Bank.

Dr. Verdini is a Mexican and French national who has been trained in international affairs, political science, and public policy in Mexico City (CIDE), Paris (Sciences-Po), and Cambridge (MIT). He has collaborated with partners in Washington D.C., London, Tokyo, Riyadh, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Madrid, and Vienna. Mexico’s National Council on Science and Technology, Mexico’s Ministry of Energy, MIT’s International Science and Technology Initiative, Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, Mexico’s Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, France’s National Foundation of Political Science, Fulbright, and Goldman Sachs, among other institutions, have supported his work.

Dr. Verdini teaches MIT’s popular undergraduate course, the Art and Science of Negotiation. He has been a guest lecturer on negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution at the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, MIT Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, and MIT Metropolitan Lab. He has served on the teaching team for training sessions at the National Science Foundation Water Diplomacy Program, Harvard School of Public Health, MIT Center for Real Estate, and Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

His doctoral dissertation, which explores two landmark transboundary water and energy negotiations between the U.S. and Mexico, won Harvard Law School’s best paper in negotiation award. The annual prize, named in memory of Howard Raiffa, one of the founders of the Program on Negotiation, is awarded to the student author of the best research paper on a topic relating to negotiation, competitive decision-making, dispute resolution, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution.

As Director for the MIT-Harvard Mexico Negotiation Program, under the leadership and expertise of MIT’s Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning Lawrence Susskind, Bruno is spearheading the development of an executive negotiation teaching and training program. This program aims to contribute to the efforts led by Mexico’s Ministry of Energy, along with the Ministries of the Environment and Foreign Affairs, to negotiate efficient, resilient, and replicable agreements on behalf of the resource management interests of Mexico.

The mission of the program is to further enhance the skills and strategies of Mexican public and private sector managers involved in domestic and international water, energy, and environmental negotiations. The overarching responsibility is to ensure that capacity is effectively built and maintained in Mexico, responding to the country’s ambitious resource management reforms. To this end, we are working with prominent Mexican universities and research institutions.

Mexico’s National Council on Science and Technology, Mexico’s Ministry of Energy, MIT’s International Science and Technology Initiative, Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, Mexico’s Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, France’s National Foundation of Political Science, Fulbright, and Goldman Sachs, among other institutions, have supported Bruno’s work.

During his time at MIT, Bruno has worked as a researcher at the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, the MIT Environmental Policy and Planning Group, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. His research has explored the skills and strategies by which resource management practitioners focusing on water can increase river-basin supply, re-think the possibilities of irrigation and storage infrastructure, as well as restore ecosystems and habitats. Additionally, he has worked to present insights for energy resource management in order to enhance coordination between publicly traded and state owned companies, improve energy transition and planning, and re-define the scope and impact of diplomatic partnerships.

A Mexican and French citizen, and former Deputy Director for International Affairs at Mexico’s Ministry of Energy, Bruno has collaborated with partners in Washington D.C., London, Mexico City, Tokyo, Paris, Riyadh, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Stockholm, and Vienna. "

Mr. Driss Assi:

A flavour is here from COP 22:

""Green Economy as a lever for inclusive development in Morocco, by Driss Assi, Professor of Economics and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Juridical Sciences, Economic and Social, Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech (Morocco)."

Ms. Sabine Lavorel:

"Sabine Lavorel is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies and the Faculty of Law of Grenoble. Holder of a master's degree in public law from the University of Grenoble II and a master's degree in defense and international security from the University of Lyon III, she is currently engaged in a doctorate in public law and lecturer at the University of Grenoble II. She is currently pursuing research on the legal protection of minorities and legal pluralism, within the framework of the Center for Studies on International Security and European Co-operation."

Ms. Luciane Martins de Araújo, State of Goiás:

"[S]He holds a law degree from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), a Masters in Law (2005), a UFG, a PhD in Environmental Sciences (2009), UFG. He specializes in Civil Procedure. Effective Professor of the Law Course of the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás and the Master's Program in Law, International Relations and Development. Lawyer and environmental consultant at Rede Gaia Consultoria, of which she is a partner. Research Associate of the Center de Recherches Interdisciplinaires in Droit de L? Environnement de L? Aménangement et de l'Urbanisme (CRIDEAU), Université de Limoges, France. Member of the National Council of Environmental Law of the Brazilian Bar Association (CONDA), the Association of Teachers of Environmental Law of Brazil (APRODAB), the Brazilian Institute of Public Advocacy (IBAP) and the Advisory Committee for Research of the Graduate Studies and Research at PUC / Goiás. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Brazilian Journal of the Digital Environment and Information Society and of the Public Law Journal of the State University of Londrina. She was a lawyer at the Caixa Econômica Federal (1992-2010). Has experience in the area of ​​Public and Private Law, with emphasis on Environmental, Civil, Civil, Constitutional and Administrative Law. Its main lines of research are: Environment, Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Urbanistic Law and Constitutional Law. She is the author of books and scientific articles published in national and international journals and participates in several international conferences on her research object."

Mr. José Antônio Tietzmann e Silva, State of Goiás:

"Bachelor in Law from the Catholic University of Goiás (1998), MSc in Environmental Law from the International University of Andalusia (2002), MSc in Environmental and Urban Law from the University of Limoges / CRIDEAU (2003), Doctor of Environmental Law from the University of Limoges / CRIDEAU (2007, revalidated by UFSC in 2008). Lawyer and consultant in environmental and urban law at Rede Gaia Consultoria, of which he is a partner. Professor and researcher at PUC Goiás, at the Federal University of Goiás and at the Paulista University. Professor in the Specialization in Environment and Protection of Cultural Heritage of the National University of the Coast, in Santa Fe, Argentina. Visiting Professor of the MSc in Environmental and Urban Law at the University of Limoges, France. Member of the Scientific Council of the Editora of PUC Goiás and of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Journal of Animal Law. Member of the Association of Teachers of Environmental Law of Brazil. Has experience in the area of ​​Law, with emphasis on Public Law, especially Administrative, International, Environmental and Urban."

Mme Marta Torre y Alvarez ép Schaub:

"Marta Torre-Schaub is a jurist specialised in Environmental Law and more particularly Climate Change Law from a wide and pluridisciplinary prospect. She is a Senior Professor Researcher at the French National Center of Scientific researches (CNRS) at the Université Paris 1-Sorbonne Institut de sciences juridique et philosophiques de la Sorbonne. She teaches the Environmental Law Courses at the Master of Environmental Law and Sustainable development at Paris 1-Sorbonne University. She leads a Research Program Joint Project on Climate Change Law and Climate Justice with the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University and a Research Program supported by the Mission Droit et Justice (Department of Justice in France) about Climate Change Justice Litigation. She is an apointed expert at the Agence Nationale de la Sécurité Sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’Environnement et du travail on phytosanitary questions. She is the Founder and Director of a Researchers' Network on « Climate Change Law ». She is the author of several books, essaies, articles and reports. His main books are : « Essai sur la construction juridique de la catégorie de marché » published at LGDJ, Paris en 2002 with the award of PHD Dupin Aîné of the Chancellerie des Universités

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Climate Change Law Environmental Law International Environmental Law International Environmental Politics European Union Law Comparative Law Constitutional Law Public Participation In Environmental Law Environmental Law and Human Rights Public Law Climate & Environmental Justice"

Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement sent a single delegate to COP 23. Their website is here:

http://www.centre-cired.fr/index.php/en/

"Research areas

Energy supply and energy demand

Governance and networks of electrical industries
Policies and development of renewable energy sources (EnR)
Energy Demand, Tax Reform and Equity

Agriculture, water and land use

Agriculture and development
Management of water resources
Risk and Climate variability
Land-use changes, global environmental changes and biodiversity

Climate change and development strategies

Climate change mitigation
Adaptation to climate change
Climate negotiations and institutional issues

Sustainable cities and territories

Development of urban ecosystems
Transport and mobility
Offset policies and local communities

Biodiversity, ecosystems and natural capital

Development and ecosystem conservation
Ecosystem services assessment
Biodiversity conservation policies"

Delegate:

Mme Carine Barbier, Research Fellow:

"The international research center on environment and development (Cired) was founded in 1973 by Professor Ignacy Sachs at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In the wake of the Stockholm conference, the purpose of the laboratory was to study the tensions between environment, long-term resource management, and economic development. At Cired, Pr. Sachs developed the concept of ’eco-development’ as a way of reducing tensions between these variables by playing on lifestyles, technological choices and spatial planning. Today, Cired is still profoundly influenced by the challenge set up by its founder, i.e., responding to the Club de Rome’s thesis about limits to growth by devising strategies that articulate environmental and development goals — better known today as sustainable development.

Research programs conducted at Cired focus on the relationships between environment, natural resources and development, with focus on three key domains: energy, urban infrastructure, and agriculture and forestry—which imposes a constant dialogue between social sciences, natural sciences and engineering knowledge. To do so, the research team is pluridisciplinary, with people from diverse intellectual backgrounds, and Cired strives to preserve a good articulation between forward-looking modeling — viewed as a tool to integrate knowledge stemming from many disciplines — and more qualitative views about regulations, institutions and deliberation processes.

TEAM: Carine Barbier, Dorian Litvine"

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique also sent a single delegate to COP 23. Their website is here:

http://www.cnrs.fr/index.php

"The French CNRS is a public basic research organisation that defines its mission as producing knowledge and making it available to society. The CNRS is the major French Research Institution with 26 000 permanent staff (40% full time researchers) about 1300 laboratories (82, 5 % of them being joint units with Universities, other research institutions, and private companies), publishing more than 20 000 publications in peer reviewed journals per year. It covers all fields of science, and mainly develops science driven research. It is under the supervision of the French Ministry of Education, higher Education and Research.

In terms of international cooperation management, the policy of CNRS is to favour the development of joint projects rather than individual visits of scientists, to identify and to structure collaborative actions of mutual interest with the foreign partners, to develop not only bi-lateral but also multi-lateral programmes of cooperation and to increase the flow of young scientists in both directions. The geographical priority of CNRS is Europe, since CNRS is an active member of the European Research Area construction, but these last years, Asia has become a major scientific partner, with an increasing number of visits of French scientists to Asia and an increasing budget dedicated to support cooperative actions.

In addition, CNRS has established specific agreements for so called International Associated Laboratories (i.e. one or two labs in each country which agree to work together on a common project) in Vietnam and in Singapore in the field of Chemistry, information and communication science and nano-technology. More over, CNRS contributes to a number of summer schools or training courses in Vietnam in various fields (physics, Economy, Chemistry, Environmental sciences..) . Since 2003, CNRS is part of a Network between France and ASEAN countries in information technology. Finally, to face the increase of interactions between CNRS and ASEAN countries, CNRS has decided to settle a permanent Office in Hanoi (2006) in charge of structuring the cooperation with whole the region.

Considering more specifically the ASEAN countries, CNRS has a strong involvement with Vietnam and a lesser extends with Laos and Cambodia for historical reasons. But last years, the interactions have significantly increased with all countries of the region. CNRS have signed bi-lateral agreements with several countries: Vietnam, Academy of Science and technology in 1983, Academy of social sciences in 2001, Thailand, the Thailand research fund in 2000 renewed in 2003, Singapore, Nanyang Technological University 2005. The involvement in the co publications is high, more than 6% with Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, which number of publication is comprise between 20 and 400 international publications per year. CNRS laboratories are hosting numerous PhD students from those countries, in 2004, 161 from Vietnam, 47 from Thailand, 16 from Indonesia, 6 from Malaysia, 6 from Cambodia, 2 from Singapore.

In Asia, the main partners of CNRS are Japan, China, and Vietnam referring to the number of visits of CNRS scientists and of joint projects. Other countries with significant exchanges with France and CNRS are India, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore."

Delegate:

Mme Agathe Euzen, Directrice adjointe scientifique, INEE - Institut Ecologie & Environnement:

A COP regular. Author of books on climate change adaptation and funding.

Imagine how much good could be achieved if these enormous sums were diverted to really useful good works!

Apr 27, 2018 at 7:37 PM | Mark Hodgson

If you said that to a gathering of the trendy Progressives, that keep recycling their own rubbish, they WOULD try to kill you.

The Peace Dividend from the collapse of the USSR has been wasted on creating a higher death toll.

Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement sent 4 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

http://www.cedcameroun.org/

Being based in Cameroon, their website is in French, so to save time, and to improve accuracy (if not linguistic elegance) I'm relying on Google translate:

"The Center for Development and the Environment (CED) is an independent and apolitical organization founded in 1994 by a group of Cameroonians and foreigners. It was created in response to the crisis of forest management in Cameroon, observed in the early 1990s, with the sharp increase in industrial production of timber, the development of illegal logging, increased poaching, and the ecological, social and economic problems caused by this increased commercial pressure on the forest. The field of action of the CED gradually extended to the problems of extractive industries (oil, then other minerals), perceived as threats to the rights of the population and the environment. Winner in maturity,

In 1997, the CED became more professional and structured, notably through the implementation of a gender policy (extended to relations between indigenous populations and Bantu). and a focus on training.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the CED has made capacity building one of the pillars of its strategy. It supports NGOs and local associations of the forest zone in Cameroon, and in other countries of the Congo Basin (CAR, Gabon, Republic of Congo, DRC), on issues related to the monitoring of logging illegal, support approach to indigenous communities, law (forestry, mining, indigenous communities, environment, ...), monitoring of infrastructure and resource extraction projects, participatory mapping, etc."

Perhaps inevitably:

"The Climate Change / REDD + Program focuses its intervention on the two traditional axes of the fight against climate change, namely mitigation and adaptation.

Our areas of work are:

Advocacy for community rights in the REDD process (solution to climate change)
Contribution to the consideration of climate in Cameroon's natural resource management policies
Strengthening the efficiency and equity of the political options chosen by the State
Development of payment projects for environmental services
National, regional and international monitoring of all processes related to REDD + and climate change adaptation
Promotion of renewable energies
Support to the formation of local organizations
Promotion of alternative income-generating activities"

Delegates:

Mr. Geoffrey Kamese Nansove, National Association of Professional Environmentalists:

"Geoffrey Kamese, Senior Program Officer for projects, supervises NAPE project officers, Founder member of NAPE. In addition, Mr. Kamese who is an authority on chemical use, leads projects in the areas chemical safety and climate change. Mr. Kamese is a member of many networks including Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternative (GAIA), International Pesticides Elimination Network (IPEN), coordinator of the Network for Sound Management of Chemicals in Uganda (NESMAC-U), member of Climate Action Network International (CANI), Board member of Climate Action Networl for East African Region, member of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) and committee member of the Climate Justice and Energy of FoEI"

Ms. Ekaterina Uspenskaya, FoE Russia:

"Climate Ambassadors
Volunteer project for climate educators

Theme(s):

Climate action
Mission :
We created a ppt presentation and a manual on what is climate change, what its consequences are and what is to be done - in order to encourage local and personal action. Anyone can become a climate ambassador regardless of age and background. Our mission is to educate lay people about the issue and climate solutions with focus on energy saving and energy efficiency to reduce emissions.

Activities :
We created a CD with a presentation and a manual and we hold regular trainings for volunteers, teaching them how to use the materials. We then coordinate their visits to schools, community centers etc. and arrange educational activities for our volunteers.

Impact and key figures :
So far we have trained over 500 people, over 50 are currently active. We are an NGO team of 4 people who write materials and train volunteers. The project spread all over Russia this year due to our campaign for the divestment day. The project is currently supported by the Global Greengrants Fund.

Project sponsor :
Ekaterina Uspenskaya"

Mr. Godwin Ojo, ERA/ FoE Nigeria:

"Godwin Ojo: “Why is Shell continuing their environmental racism?”"

"Godwin Ojo is one of the founders of Environmental Rights Action, ERA, the Nigerian sister organisation of Milieudefensie that started in 1993. Since 2013, he’s the director. In Nigeria ERA sustains a large network of village communities on whose soil oil companies operate, like the Ogoni, and operates a hotline people can call to report oil spills. ERA went to court for several cases against oil companies. The NGO is also closely involved in the court case against Shell started by Milieudefensie and four Nigerian farmers. Today, december 18 2015, the court has established that yes, Shell can be put to trial for a Dutch court for damage caused in Nigeria.

Godwin Ojo: “Why is Shell continuing their environmental racism?”
Redactie Down to Earth | 18 december 2015 | Reageer
Yes, Shell can be put to trial before a Dutch court for the oil pollution in Nigeria, the court ruled today, 18 december 2015. Another step in a case started in 2008. Trying to bring a multinational to justice asks for very committed campaigners. A good moment to read the conversation we had with Godwin Ojo of ERA, Friends of the Earth Nigeria. “A court case in Nigeria can take a lifetime.”

Godwin Ojo is one of the founders of Environmental Rights Action, ERA, the Nigerian sister organisation of Milieudefensie that started in 1993. Since 2013, he’s the director. In Nigeria ERA sustains a large network of village communities on whose soil oil companies operate, like the Ogoni, and operates a hotline people can call to report oil spills. ERA went to court for several cases against oil companies. The NGO is also closely involved in the court case against Shell started by Milieudefensie and four Nigerian farmers. Today, december 18 2015, the court has established that yes, Shell can be put to trial for a Dutch court for damage caused in Nigeria.

Started in 2008, the case is edging forward very, very slowly, and asking for very committed campaigners. A good moment to translate the conversation we had last year with Ojo, scientist, publicist and activist. He was in The Netherlands to talk about the (lack of) developments concerning the 2011 UNEP report of the United Nations, with recommendations about cleaning up the oil pollution in Nigeria. “A court case in Nigeria can take an entire lifetime.”"

Mr. Kwami Dodzi Kpondzo, Amis de la Terre Togo:

A COP regular

"KPONDZO Kwami
Specialiste in Conflict Management
Campaigns Coordination Officer"

It keeps happening. How can an organisation send 4 delegates, not one of whom seems to be a member of the organisation or even come from the same country in which that organisation is based?

Centro Alexander von Humboldt sent 4 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

https://humboldt.org.ni/

"We are a Nicaraguan non-profit organization dedicated to promoting territorial development through the sustainable management of the Environment and natural resources. The institutional work is organized on the basis of a policy of alliances with civil society organizations and the organized bodies that constitute their counterparts, the horizontal relationships that it establishes with local groups and bodies, and the support of different sectors that share visions, principles and strategies for the solution of environmental and local problems in favor of sustainable development.
Our years of work and commitment to communities vulnerable to the effects of climate change has allowed us to be accredited as Observers: of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Green Climate Fund and the Climate Investment Fund (CIF) for its acronym in English and the "Program Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean region for the increase of renewable energy in low-income countries".
In our 27 years of experience, we have encouraged the active participation of communities, strengthening their technical, organizational and management capacities, with equity; through our prioritized topics: Climate Change, Integral Risk Management, Water Resources, Extractive Activities and Sustainable Energy. We firmly believe that Together for a Sustainable Environment we will achieve the desired development for our Nicaragua and the world."

Delegates:

Mr. Victor Manuel Campos Cubas, Director, Climate Change:

"Civil Engineer with work experience in territorial studies and investigations Director of Geographical Research of the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies (89-90). Co-founder of different national organizations concerned about the environment, among them the Environmental Movement of Nicaragua (MAN), the Foundation for the Conservation and Development of the Southeast (Fundación del Río) and director of the Humboldt Center since 1991.

Activist in different environmental causes:

Defense and territorial protection of Protected Areas in particular
Bosawás, where he has participated for more than twelve years in support of the Miskitos and Mayangnas indigenous populations in the core areas.

Defense promotion and protection of Forest Resources
particularly in the processes of incidence in the cases of forest concessions in the 1990s (Case of Taiwan and Solcarsa).

Sub-regional Coordinator of Mesoamerica of the Latin American Platform
of Civil Society for sustainability.

Member of the Executive Committee for Latin America of the Observatory
International of Sustainability (Suswatch) and international secretary of the same.

Coordinator of Climate Action Network (CAN) Latin America.
National link of the Nicaraguan Alliance before climate change.

Member of different national and civil society bodies related to the environment and sustainability issues such as:

National Commission of the Environment.
Technical Advisory Board of Bosawás.
Environmental Forum of Nicaragua.
He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Humboldt Center. "

Mr. Kavindu Sandaruwan, Program Coordinator, Cross Cutting, SLYCAN Trust:

A surprisingly common name on the internet, but definitely not a COP first-timer.

Ms. Tania Yaoska Guillén Bolaños, Researcher, Climate Service Center - Germany:

"At the GERICS Tania Guillén B. is currently working as a research associate supporting the preparation of the Special Report on the 1.5ºC of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She also supports GERICS activities which aim to enhance the implementation of climate policies, specially planning and implementation of adaptation to climate change, which at the same time can contribute to achieve the sustainable development goals.

Previously, Tania was fellow of the International Climate Protection Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at GERICS, where she worked on the development of tools for climate change adaptation planning as part of the climate impacts and economics department.

Tania is graduated on Environmental Engineering of the Central American University (UCA) of Nicaragua and holds a MSc in Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics awarded by the TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences of Cologne, Germany. Tania has worked in relation to environmental management at the local level in Nicaragua, and also at the global level where she has specialized on the climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC, with focus on adaptation and loss and damage. She has also facilitated Latin American civil society networks related to the climate change negotiations. Since 2016 is part of the technical staff (ad honorem) of the Latin American and Caribbean Group on Climate Finance (GFLAC)."

Mr. Bernis Trejos Cunningham, Lobby and Advocay Officer, Climate Change:

""Bernis Yonin Trejos Cunningham was born on June 30, 1984 in the city of Bilwi in the autonomous region of the Atlantic North of the Republic of Nicaragua. At age 4, his family moved to the city of Granada, a city in the Pacific of Nicaragua, where he studied throughout his primary and secondary education.

In 2003, he began his law studies at the Catholic University of Nicaragua and graduated from law school in November 2010. He took other courses and postgraduate programs in Tax Law and Environmental Law, including in 2014, Degree in Tax Law, American University, Managu, in 2013, Environmental Law Seminary “Actualization and advances of the environmental Law in Nicaragua,” CICFA, and in 2012, Environmental Law Course, University of Engineer, Center of Production the most cleaner in Nicaragua (CPML), given in the city of Managua, Nicaragua on the second day of the month of June 2012, with a duration of 32 hours.

In 2009, Bernis and a group of friends realized the severe environmental conditions in which Nicaragua Lake in the City of Granada was suffering and for this reason, they decided to take actions to protect the Lake Cocibolca. In the meeting for lake, he discovered his passion for environmental issues. In 2009, Bernis and a group of friends founded the juvenile movement, “Nicaragua Eco-Logic.” The main objective of the group was to unite ecology with reason. They worked in tsunami environments, cleaning the Lake, reforesting schools, and organized the first meeting of the environmental leaders of the city of Granada. This meeting brought environmental leaders from around the country together and the movement was supported by businessmen and the municipal government in Granada.

After graduating from the university in 2010, all member of Nicaragua Eco-Logic obtained jobs in different companies. For his knowledge of the environmental problems of the Cocibolca Lake, he was selected to practice law in Centro Humboldt, one of the most important environmental organizations in Center America. After three months of volunteering, he was officially hired as the legal adviser for the Centro Humboldt. In this position, he manages to promote an initiative of law of regulation of non-biodegradable plastic bags, which is currently in the National Assembly. He also works in the formulation and improvement of amendments to the act of exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons, and small-scale mining law. It serves large cases of contamination such as contamination of the aquifer in Managua by the Texaco petrol station. He works in counseling indigenous people in the autonomous region. He also attends cases about contamination of African palm oil in Kukar Hill."

Centro de Apoyo a la Gestión Sustentable del Agua y el Medio Ambiente sent a single delegate to COP 23. Their website is here:

http://www.aguasustentable.org/index.php?page=0

"The support Center for sustainable water and environment management known as “Agua Sustentable” is a non-profit NGO whose purpose is to contribute to water sustainability and environment management at national and international levels. Its work focuses in the building of knowledge, policies, institutions and regulations oriented to generate group wellbeing and environmental & socio-economic development of local populations. These action lines are achieved through social and community capacity development and strengthening, by promoting citizen participation and responsibility in the care of water basins & sources and others that derive from their use. The institution considers that water is a human right and their use is a priority for life; that is human consumption and productive activities related to food security and environment.

Vision

Local communities, social and citizenship organizations, economic and productive agents, civil society institutional networks, public and social institutions; and local, regional, departmental, and national governments carry-out a comprehensive and sustainable management of the environment and its fresh water resources, by knowing and exercising full respect towards Human rights, both group and individual; within a plurality, intercultural and equitable framework, benefiting a better quality of life, guaranteeing water usage for human consumption and productive activities associated to food security.

Mission

Agua Sustentable seeks to contribute towards water and environment sustainable management at national and international levels, through the building of knowledge, policies, institutions and regulations orientated to generate group wellbeing and environmental & socio-development of local populations, by developing and strengthening social and community capacities, promoting citizen participation and responsibility in the care and group management of water basins & sources and others that derive from their use. All these, following the principle that water is a human right and that their use is a priority for life; that is human consumption and productive activities related to food security and environment.

Objective

To promote and strengthen local, departmental, national and international processes, by interacting with the civil society and public institutions in the construction, consolidation and application of a regulatory and institutional framework for environment, biodiversity, and water management and others that derive from their use, by recognizing and respecting plurality, promoting inter-culturality and equity on the basis of human rights to both, healthy water and environment."

Lots of boxes ticked there to get UN support.

Delegate:

Ms. Rada Marsida, Asistente Legal, Legal, Agua Sustentable:

I couldn't obviously find her, but I couldn't help wondering whether she is the same person as Marsida Rada. This from the University of Strathclyde website:

"SCELG at COP23 and more
Recent months have seen a number of exciting SCELG activities on the climate change and energy front. From participation in high-level policy forums to developments in our teaching portfolio and project and publication updates, this has been a busy period for SCELG.

Staff, alumni and students @ the COP
For the 23rd year in a row, national delegations and observers from the private sector and civil society convened in Bonn for the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), known colloquially as COP23. A central item on the agenda this year was the elaboration of a ‘rulebook’ for implementation of the groundbreaking Paris Agreement adopted at COP21 in 2015. Strathclyde had a strong presence at the summit, with several former and current students of the LLM in Climate Change Law and Policy attending as negotiators or observers.

Melissa Low, a 2015 graduate, represented the National University of Singapore and shared insights from her research on transparency in climate policy during a side event hosted by the government of Korea. Alastair Marke, a current student, presented ongoing work on the role of blockchain technology in enhancing climate action at several events, and hosted a networking dinner of the International Core Group on Blockchain Climate Finance. Sehon Marshall, Fabrice Mattei, Marsida Rada, and Johan Thyse also engaged actively in the negotiations and events on the sideline of the climate summit.

Prof Mehling, on the faculty of the LLM in Climate Change Law and Policy, shared insights from recent research projects and advisory work at side events organized by the Climate Law & Governance Initiative, Climate Strategies, the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, the International Emissions Trading Association, United Nations University, and the World Climate Summit. He also launched the 10th anniversary issue of the Carbon & Climate Law Review he edits, and followed as many of the exciting activities of Strathclyde students as possible."

Centro de Planificación y Estudio Social sent 2 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here (I think, being part of the website of the University of Costa Rica):

http://enlaceacademico.ucr.ac.cr/taxonomy/term/706

"Center for Planning and Social Studies (CEPLAES) Subscribe to RSS - Center for Planning and Social Studies (CEPLAES)
Women's Commissariats in Latin America: A door to stop violence and access justice
Author (s): Jubb, NadineCamacho, GloriaD'Angelo, AlmachiaraHernández, KattyaMacassi León, IvonneMeléndez López, Liz IvettMolina, YamilethPasinato, WâniaRedrobán, VerónicaRoses, Simas de Souza, ClaudiaYáñez De la Borda, Gina

This research focuses on the perspectives and experiences of women who have come to the Women's Commissariat (CM) at some point in their path to end the violence in their lives and access to justice. Therefore, it has two main subjects -women in situations of violence and WPS- and places women at the center of the analysis. The study is made from a feminist framework based on the comprehensive analysis of gender, intersectionality and power."

Delegates:

Ms. Barbel Sybil Henneberger:

A COP regular.

"Bärbel Sybil Henneberger, student of the Master's Degree in Sustainable Development and Climate Change."

Ms. Carol Adriana Gonzalez Rodriguez:

Difficult to find online - too many called Carol Rodriguez to be certain.

"Centro Alexander von Humboldt sent 4 delegates to COP 23"
May 2, 2018 at 8:32 PM | Mark Hodgson

Humboldt's name appears all over the Americas and rightly so. (Even the recent Ice Hockey Bus crash)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt

but would he be impressed by all these efforts to teach people how not to thrive, when they struggle to survive?

"Previously, Tania was fellow of the International Climate Protection Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at GERICS, where she worked on the development of tools for climate change adaptation planning as part of the climate impacts and economics department." Sounds really, really useful, but what has she actually achieved?

Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical sent 4 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

http://ciat.cgiar.org/

"CIAT works in collaboration with hundreds of partners to help developing countries make farming more competitive, profitable, and resilient through smarter, more sustainable natural resource management. We help policymakers, scientists, and farmers respond to some of the most pressing challenges of our time, including food insecurity and malnutrition, climate change, and environmental degradation.

Our global research contributes to several of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and cuts across four key themes: big data, climate-smart agriculture, ecosystem action, and sustainable food systems."

They have an impressive donor list, including UN, USA, EU etc and many of the usual suspects:

http://ciat.cgiar.org/our-donors/

Delegates:

Mr. Andrew James Jarvis, Flagship Leader, Climate Smart Agriculture:

Extensive CV,too big to cut & paste:

http://ciat.cgiar.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/resume_andy_jarvis.pdf

Mr. Evan Girvetz, Senior Scientist, Climate Smart Agriculture, International Center for Tropical Agriculture:

"Dr. Evan Girvetz is a senior scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and leads projects for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). His research focusses on supporting the scaling up of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) evidence-based investment planning, decision making and policy support. Dr. Girvetz works to support mainstreaming of CSA into agricultural development programs and projects globally through innovative partnerships with the African Union New Partnership for African Development, the World Bank, USAID, government agencies, NGOs, and the private sector. He sits on the steering committee of the Africa CSA Alliance (http://AfricaCSA.org) and the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT). He led the development of the Climate Wizard (http://ClimateWizard.org) and contributed to the development of the CSA 101 Website (http://CSA.Guide). Dr. Girvetz is widely published and his research has been featured in top media outlets including the San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times and New Scientist magazine. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California, Davis and currently holds an affiliate assistant professor position at the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences."

Ms. Alicia Ilaga, Former Director - Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture, AMIA Philippines:

"QUEZON CITY, Philippines – The Department of Agriculture (DA), in partnership with the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the University of the Philippines Los Baños Foundation, Inc. (UPLBFI), has recently launched the project Strengthening Implementation of Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA) through an Inception Meeting on 24 April 2015 at the DA Agricultural Training Institute in Quezon City.

Dir. Alicia Ilaga, Director for DA Systems-Wide Climate Change Office (SWCCO), explained that AMIA defines DA’s national framework in addressing climate change in agriculture and serves as the umbrella program covering climate change across all programs, functions, and agencies at DA. AMIA also addresses the key considerations in dealing with climate change in agriculture.

Dir. Ilaga also mentioned that AMIA is one of the seven systems-wide mainstreaming programs of DA which should mainstream at both the strategic and operational level across agencies and programs systems-wide. This means transforming systems, adjusting development programs/projects, and capacitating people to achieve efficiency at all levels of implementation. AMIA would likewise develop a culture of excellence and respect to climate change in government services in agriculture.

Mr. Johnson Mercader, Project Team Leader, expressed his appreciation for the presentation of Dir. Ilaga in providing the consultants with DA’s insights on and expectations from the AMIA Project. Other members of the Project Team present during the Inception Meeting include Dr. Daylinda Cabanilla, Dr. Esteban Godilano, Dr. Saturnina Halos, Dr. Tolentino Moya, and Dr. Eliseo Ponce. Ms. Dorcas V. Trinidad, Project Coordinator, represented UPLBFI.

SEARCA was represented by Dr. Maria Celeste H. Cadiz, Program Head, and Ms. Rosario Bantayan, Program Specialist, both of the Knowledge Management Department; and Dr. Lope B. Santos III, Program Specialist and Officer-In-Charge; Ms. Nancy M. Landicho-de Leon, Program Specialist; and Ms. Imelda L. Batangantang, Program Associate, all of the Project Development and Technical Services."

Mr. Godefroy Bernard R. Grosjean, Climate Policy Expert, Asia, Climate Policy Hub Leader, Climate and Environment Policy:

"Godefroy works in the ENTRACTE project, funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme. Its goal is to investigate the interaction between the EU ETS and other climate policy instruments. Godefroy’s research addresses the reform of the EU ETS looking specifically at institutional design (delegation in the EU ETS) as well as the sectoral and geographical expansions of the trading scheme.

Education

Godefroy holds an M.Sc. in Economics (Maastricht University) and a Dual Degree Master of Public Administration / Public Policy (London School of Economics / Hertie School of Governance)."

Ceres, Inc. sent 3 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

https://www.ceres.org/

This is from Wikipedia:

"Ceres, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Thousand Oaks, California, United States. The company develops and produces seeds of genetically modified crops used for biofuels production. In addition to the operations in the United States, it has a subsidiary in Brazil called Ceres Sementes do Brasil.

History
The company was founded in 1996. Since 2012 it is listed at the NASDAQ. As of February 2012, the largest shareholders were Artal Luxembourg, Warburg Pincus, Ambergate Trust and Oxford Bioscience, while biotechnology company Monsanto had 4.8% stake. The company's president and CEO is Richard Hamilton.

On June 21, 2016, Ceres was acquired by Land O'Lakes for $17.2 million.

Products and research
Ceres sells sweet sorghum, switchgrass and high biomass sorghum seeds, with its first sales coming for the 2009 growing season. It has tested biofuels production from switchgrass and miscanthus. In 2010, Ceres started to cooperate with Novozymes to improve the enzyme cocktails for biorefinery switchgrass and sweet sorghum. USAID has funded Ceres' research on biotech traits and trait stacks in rice for Asia."

From their own website:

"Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization working with the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy. Through powerful networks and advocacy, Ceres tackles the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, including climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and human rights abuses.

Our mission: Ceres is transforming the economy to build a sustainable future for people and the planet. " How lovely.

And:

"“Ceres has played a key role in catalyzing the flow of capital to support the low-carbon transition.”

Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
Christiana Figueres
Former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC"

No wonder they received an invitation.

Delegates:

Ms. Sue Reid, Vice President, Climate & Energy Programs, Ceres:

"Sue is vice president of climate and energy at Ceres, overseeing the organization’s climate and energy team including electric power, transportation, oil and gas and insurance. She also coordinates across the organization to advance the Ceres Clean Trillion campaign. The campaign promotes a clean energy investment target intended to avoid the worst effects of climate change, requiring more than $1 trillion additional investment in clean energy globally each year while ratcheting down investment in fossil fuels.

In her role at Ceres, Sue led the development of groundbreaking analysis by Ceres, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and investor Ken Locklin — Mapping The Gap — illuminating the global renewable electric power investment and sources of capital needed through 2040 to limit temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees Celsius. Sue also has contributed columns to Forbes.com and has been featured in Bloomberg, BBC, CBS.com, NPR, and The Boston Globe, among other news outlets. She often is invited to speak at climate and energy conferences around the U.S. and globally.

Sue has more than two decades of experience as an attorney and specialist in climate and energy policies, practices and investments. Prior to joining Ceres in 2014, she served as Vice President and Massachusetts Advocacy Center Director at the Conservation Law Foundation, where she successfully spearheaded efforts to secure some of the strongest climate and clean energy policies in the U.S. She also has served on several Boards of Directors and advisory boards, including the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act Implementation Advisory Committee, Toxics Action Center Advisory Board, Earth Island Institute Board of Directors, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey's Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Judicial Nominees.

She also previously worked as an intellectual property litigation attorney at law firms in Silicon Valley and Boston, where she represented a broad range of high tech clients. She earned her law degree with honors from Boston University School of Law."

Ms. Anne Kelly, Director, Policy Program:

"Anne L. Kelly is the senior director of policy and the BICEP Network at Ceres.

She is a registered lobbyist and is actively engaged on Capitol Hill on behalf of Ceres and BICEP Network member companies.

Anne is an environmental lawyer with twenty years of combined experience in the private and public sectors. In the 1990s she directed the Massachusetts-based Environmental Crimes Strike Force consisting of a multi-disciplinary team of legal and engineering professionals charged with bringing high-profile civil and criminal actions against environmental violators through the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General.

Anne later worked as special assistant to EPA Region 1 Administrator John DeVillars. In this role, she worked on corporate leadership programs and developed an International Pollution Prevention Program which was piloted in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Anne is a certified mediator and a founding partner in the Boston-based law and mediation firm, Creative Resolutions, LLC where she served clients facing environmental disputes at the state and federal levels.

Anne is a member of the adjunct faculty of Boston College Law School where she has taught courses in environmental law and climate change. Anne has also taught environmental law at Tufts University, Suffolk University and New England School of Law. She serves on the board of the Environmental League of Massachusetts. In addition to her law degree, Anne holds a master's in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government."

Mr. Ryan Martel:

"Ryan Martel is a director on the policy team at Ceres, focused on working with the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk and Sustainability on federal, state, and international climate and clean energy policy.

From 2013 to 2015 Ryan served as the energy and climate policy advisor to Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, focusing on renewable energy deployment, energy efficiency, and international climate negotiations. Prior to that, he worked for Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico from 2009 to 2013, eventually serving as the Staff Director for the Finance Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure, where he focused on energy tax policy.

Ryan received his master’s degree in public policy with a concentration in environmental regulatory policy from Georgetown University and his bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Bowdoin College."

Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America sent a single delegate to COP 23. Their website is here:

https://www.uschamber.com/

"The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business organization representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions. Our members range from mom-and-pop shops and local chambers to leading industry associations and large corporations. They all share one thing—they count on the Chamber to be their voice in Washington, D.C."

Delegate:

Mr. Stephen Daniel Eule, Vice President for Climate and Technology, Institute for 21st Century Energy:

"Stephen D. Eule is vice president for climate and technology at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute. With more than two decades of experience, Eule is a recognized and respected expert on the nexus between energy and climate change. He engages with business groups across the world, is asked frequently to testify before Congress, and is quoted often in major media outlets. Eule represents the Chamber in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and helped found the Major Economies Business Forum on Energy Security and Climate Change, a coalition of more than 20 national cross-sector business organizations from major economies. Eule also is responsible for GEI’s two authoritative energy security reports—the Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk and the International Index of Energy Security Risk. These risks indices represent the first and most comprehensive efforts to quantify energy security risks over time and across a wide range of measures. They have been cited by the International Energy Agency and are used by universities and think tanks across the world. Previously, Eule was director of the Office of Climate Change Policy & Technology at the Department of Energy. There he oversaw the development of the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan in 2006 and ran President Bush’s Climate VISION program. Internationally, Eule represented DOE as part of the U.S. government delegations to the UNFCCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the G20, and other multilateral forums. He was lead chapter author on the U.S. Climate Action Report—2006 and contributed to other U.S. government publications. His prior experience includes a decade working in various public policy positions. He was a subcommittee staff director on the House Science Committee and served as legislative director for Rep. Nick Smith (R-MI). In addition, Eule was an environmental analyst in the Washington, D.C., office of New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R-NJ). Earlier, he worked for eight years as an Orkand Corporation consultant to the Energy Information Administration and worked at the Heritage Foundation. Eule earned a Master of Arts degree in geography from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Southern Connecticut State College."

https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/stephen-eule

"Stephen D. Eule is vice president for climate and technology at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute (Energy Institute). Eule is an experienced voice on the nexus between energy, climate change, and technology. He travels around the world to speak with business, governments, think tanks, and the media in a variety of forums.

Eule oversees the collection and analysis of data on energy and climate and the impact of technology in the energy industry. He represents the U.S. Chamber in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and helped found the Major Economies Business Forum on Energy Security and Climate Change, a coalition of national cross-sector business organizations from major economies for which the Energy Institute acts as secretariat.

Eule also is responsible for the Energy Institute’s two annual and authoritative energy security reports—the Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk and the International Index of Energy Security Risk. These risks indices represent the first and most comprehensive efforts to quantify energy security risks over time and across a wide range of measures. They have been cited by the International Energy Agency and are used by universities and think tanks across the world.

Previously, Eule was director of the Office of Climate Change Policy & Technology at the Department of Energy (DOE). There he oversaw the development of the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan in 2006, ran President Bush’s Climate VISION program, and testified before Congress on DOE climate and energy programs. Internationally, Eule represented DOE as part of the U.S. government delegations to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the G20, and other multilateral forums. He was lead chapter author on the U.S. Climate Action Report—2006 and contributes to other government publications.

His prior experience includes a decade working in various public policy positions. He was a subcommittee staff director on the House Science Committee and served as legislative director for Rep. Nick Smith (R-MI). In addition, Eule was an environmental analyst in the Washington, D.C., office of New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R-NJ). Earlier, he worked for eight years as an Orkand Corporation consultant to the Energy Information Administration and worked at the Heritage Foundation.

Eule earned a Master of Arts degree in geography from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Southern Connecticut State College."

https://www.uschamber.com/stephen-eule

Chatham House sent a single delegate to COP 23. Their website is here:

https://www.chathamhouse.org/

The first article is "How China Could Become a Global Leader in Sustainable Infrastructure" so they're signed up to it all.

There's also this:

"Chatham House research on climate focuses around two broad areas: climate change and low-carbon development. Work on this topic includes research on global climate action and climate policy; the impact of livestock, animal agriculture and western diets on climate change; EU climate and energy policy; and managing the political economy of low-carbon development."

But at least they recognise that "Current biomass policy frameworks are not fit for purpose and require substantial changes to ensure they contribute to mitigating climate change rather than exacerbating it."

Delegate:

Ms. Wing Yee Bernice Lee:

"Bernice Lee OBE
Executive Director, Hoffmann Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy

Bernice Lee is executive director of the Hoffmann Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy at Chatham House.

She was director of climate change and resource security initiatives at the World Economic Forum (2014-2016) and research director for Energy, Environment and Resources at Chatham House (2007-13).

She was team leader for the EU-China Interdependencies on Energy and Climate Security Project and held positions at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva; the Aga Khan Foundation (UK); the Strategic Planning Unit of the UN Secretary-General's office in New York; and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Bernice was also a member of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation’s Climate Change Advisory Board (2011-16); External Review Committee of Royal Dutch Shell (2014-17) International Co-chair of CCICED’s Low Carbon Industrialisation Strategy Task Force (2010-11); and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Climate Change (2008-09).

In 2011, she was awarded an OBE for services to UK-China climate change cooperation in the Queen’s New Years Honours List.

A frequent speaker, her work has been covered in the Financial Times, New York Times, Wired, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Caijing, Harvard Business Review, and the Americas Quarterly.

Areas of expertise
Resource security
Technologies and transition
Climate change
Trade and environment
China and climate security
Past experience
2016 - present Executive Director, Hoffmann Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy, Chatham House
2013-16 Director, Climate Change and Resource Security Initiatives, World Economic Forum
2008-13 Research Director, Energy, Environment and Resources, Chatham House (Previously Head, Energy, Environment and Development Programme Nov 07-Jul 08)
May - Nov 2007 Team Leader, Interdependencies on Energy and Climate Security for China and Europe Project, Chatham House
2002-06 Policy and Strategy Adviser, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva
2000-02 Mining Minerals and Sustainable Development project, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
1999 - 2000 Officer, Strategic Planning Unit, UN Secretary-General's office, New York
1998-99 Warren Weaver Fellow (International Security) Rockefeller Foundation
1997-98 Research Associate, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)".

Children and Youth International sent 2 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

http://childrenyouth.eu/

"CHILDREN AND YOUTH INTERNATIONAL IS A CHARITABLE ARM SUPPORTING EDUCATION, TRAINING AND FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES OF THE UNMGCY TO ENABLE YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS TO PLAY A ROLE IN THE UN. WE ARE LEGALLY REGISTERED BODY WHICH ACTS ON BEHALF OF THE MAJOR GROUP ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH. IT IS YOUTH-LED, COMPLETELY VOLUNTEER-BASED ORGANIZATION. IT WAS FORMALLY CALLED RIO+TWENTIES BUT CHANGED IT’S NAME IN 2014 TO REFLECT THE WIDER ROLE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POST-RIO. WE ACT AS THE FINANCE COMMITTEE TO THE UN MAJOR GROUP CHILDREN AND YOUTH.
OBJECTIVES
Its works for the public benefit by the advancement Sustainable Development, of education, advancement of citizenship.
It will do this through fundraising, capacity building and empowerment of young people so that they can participate in negotiations related to Sustainable Development in particular but not exclusively for process relating to the outcomes of Rio+20, the High Level Political Forum, the Millennium Development Goals and their successors, Disaster Risk Reduction, Small Island Developing States, Consumption and Production Patterns and other negations from time to time that the board believe is relevant.
To achieve these goals, the non-profit can execute at any time all activities that contribute directly or indirectly to the achievement of the purpose of the non- profit. This includes ancillary commercial and profitable businesses within the boundaries of what is legal and of which the proceeding will be fully geared towards achieving the purpose of the non-profit.
The association pursues these goals, regardless of any political party, trade union and is not tied to a particular philosophical or religious belief."

Lots of boxes ticked their, and not surprisingly they receive funding from the EU and the UN.

Delegates:

Ms. Nouhad Awwad, Arab Youth Climate Movement:

"Nouhad Awwad holds a BSc. in environmental health and a master’s degree in Environmental Sciences with a concentration in environmental policy planning from the American University of Beirut. Nouhad also got a certificate from Duke University for completing One Health Program; in addition, she attended a course on U.S Foreign Policy in Global Era at Elliott School of International Affairs at the University of George Washington University. She has been an online and offline environmental activist as well as working on numerous grassroots campaigns for climate justice issues she believes in. Currently, she is volunteering with the Arab Youth Climate Movement in Lebanon and The Mediterranean Youth Network. Nouhad was part of the Lebanese official delegation to COP21 and COP22. Nouhad attended COP23 as an observer since she was elected as YOUNGO focal point for 2017 in which she works to empower young people so that they have a voice at UNFCCC conferences, as well as to promote youth participation in climate change projects at the local and national levels.Nouhad tracks the NDCs for her country and other Arab states. Nouhad works to serve her interest in protecting the environment and applying humanitarian standards and codes, with the ultimate goal of safeguarding a sustainable future."

Ms. Heeta Lakhani, Plant for the Planet:

"POP at COY12 and COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco
​
Heeta Lakhani, Youth Mentor and Bindu Bhandari, our partner attended the COP22 and the 12th Conference of Youth (COY12) held in Marrakech, Morocco in November, 2016. They participated in various youth events representing the POP Movement and spreading word about the Movement among delegates at the conference.

Heeta engaged in Plant-for-the-Planet's tree planting action at COP22. As part of their initiative, she also distributed "Change Chocolates" every morning to delegates attending the conference. Each chocolate bar contained a message by youth to delegates encouraging change.

Finally, Heeta also took part in the Youth Flash Mob organized by the International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges, which emphasized the importance of youth inclusion and called for increased resources to support youth-led action on climate change. The Youth Flash Mob was celebrated as part of the COP22's "Young and Future Generations Day" on Nov 10, 2016."

I'm still only up to "C" and have "climate" related names of organisations to deal with yet, but first it's the turn of the China section. There are loads of them, but arguably a disproportionately small number, given both the size of the Chinese population and their proportion of global GHG emissions.

Anyway, China Association for NGO Cooperation sent 11 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

http://www.climatenetwork.org/profile/member/china-association-ngo-cango

As can be seen, they are part of the "climate action network".

"The China Association for NGO Cooperation (CANGO) is a non-profit membership organization operating nationwide. CANGO was founded in 1992 and registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 1993 (registration number 3340), and is audited according to Chinese laws. By the end of 2010, CANGO had 142 member organizations. CANGO is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. CANGO also gained the qualification of pre-tax deduction for donations by the Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation. At the beginning of 2010, CANGO gained the honorary title “National Advanced Social Organization” by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Since its founding, CANGO has developed good relations with 170 foreign NGOs as well as bilateral and multilateral organizations, which are maintained through its day-to-day operations. By the end of December 2009, CANGO had raised a total of RMB 472 million from 87 donor agencies for project implementation. The local matching fund reached a total of RMB 280 million. Almost 100 counties from 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities were involved in the projects. In addition, CANGO uses available resources to participate in international events, enhance the communication with foreign NGOs, participate in regional NGO communications and cooperation, and improve the social functions of NGOs in China.

The future task and direction for CANGO will be to promote China’s civil society development and to provide a platform for exchange of experiences and information-sharing for Chinese NGOs. CANGO will continue its work in Central and Western China with a strong focus on environmental protection and capacity building. CANGO will broaden the coorporation channels with the government, businesses and research institutes, and pay more attention to balanced economic and social development."

Delegates:

Mr. Brent Habig, Vp International Programs, International Programs, Institute for Sustainable Communities:

"Brent Habig is ISC’s VP of International Programs. In this role, he works with country directors to develop ISC's international strategy, vision, and program portfolio, while supporting ISC’s international EHS+ Network. Brent has over 20 years of senior international management experience, and is a well-respected development leader with world-class expertise in value chain development, Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P), small and medium enterprise development, impact investing and corporate partnerships. He has extensive experience in program, staff and donor relationship management.

Prior to ISC, Brent was Vice President for West and Southern Africa at TechnoServe, where he managed a USD$32M annual portfolio of 40+ development projects focused on capacity building and leadership development. In this role he developed and managed relationships with many donors, including USAID, USDA, DFID, EU, BMGF, IFAD, World Bank, IFC and Ford Foundation. Prior to his work with TechnoServe, he was the Regional Investment Advisor for US African Development Foundation in Ghana. Brent was also founder and CEO of Tigris Consulting, which provided supply chain management and technology consulting for clients including Pepsi, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, Kraft and Heinz. He grew this business from the start-up phase, managed for 8 years and then successfully sold to the publicly traded Verticalnet, Inc.

Brent speaks fluent Mandarin and is proficient in French. He holds a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Oberlin College and has completed post-graduate (Owner-President Management Program) at the Harvard Business School."

Mr. Daxing Zhao, Executive Director:

"EU's launches Civil Society Project in Beijing

The Delegation of the European Union to China has launched a new project entitled "Civil Society Organizations and Local Authorities Partnership for Public Services and Social Governance". The project is part of the EU thematic programme "Civil Society Organizations" and has an EU financial contribution of 800.000 EUR. The project will be implemented by the China Association for NGO cooperation (CANGO) and aims at supporting the role of Chinese Civil Society organizations in the delivery of social services to vulnerable groups, reinforcing their capacities, and fostering the establishment of partnerships between Local authorities and CSOs to improve the quality of social services in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Sichuan.

The launch event counted with the participation of Mr. Long Yongtu, Former Vice-Minister of Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Mr. Chang Hexi, Vice-Director General of China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges, Mr Zhao Daxing Executive Director of CANGO and Mr Chris Wood, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Union to China.

Mr Wood highlighted the importance that civil society organizations have in European welfare systems, contributing to bring social services closer to the citizens and improving their effectiveness and efficiency. The project will become a platform through which different Chinese actors will be able to interact and discuss how to improve social services delivery to vulnerable groups."

Mr. Michael Eckhart, Managing Director and Global Head of Environmental Finance, Corporate and Investment Banking,
Citigroup:

"Michael Eckhart is a Managing Director and Global Head of Environmental Finance at Citigroup in New York City. In this role he supports Citi’s goal to be the leading financial services firm in renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean water and related areas, serving clients with corporate banking, investment banking, equity and debt capital market originations and trading, and corporate transaction services.

Mr. Eckhart is actively involved in industry leadership roles. He serves on the steering committee of the REN 21 global policy network, on the Renewable Industry Advisory Board of the International Energy Agency (IEA), and as an Observer to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). He has broad relationships with renewable energy industry, finance and policy leaders around the world, especially in the U.S., Europe, China, India, Australia, and South Africa, and is a globally-recognized industry leader and speaker.

From 2001 to 2011, Mr. Eckhart was the founding President of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), a Washington DC-based nonprofit organization with over 600 organizational members in wind, solar, hydro, ocean, geothermal, biomass, biofuels and waste sources of electricity, thermal energy, hydrogen and fuels. ACORE is well recognized for its transformative leadership under the banner of being “for renewable energy and against nothing” and for bringing the investment and financial industry into the renewable energy field.

Previously, he developed financing for solar energy under the SolarBank Initiative in Europe, South Africa and India. For training 1,000 bankers in India about solar energy financing, he was named Renewable Energy Man of the Year of India in 1998. In South Africa, he founded the Shell-Eskom Rural Solar Electrification joint venture, which installed solar home systems on over 10,000 rural homes.

Earlier, Mr. Eckhart was Chairman & CEO of the power generation development firm United Power Systems, Inc.; Vice President of the venture capital firm Aretê Ventures, Inc. which was backed by eight electric utility companies; a strategic planner of General Electric Company’s power systems sector; and a Principal in the energy practice of Booz, Allen & Hamilton where he conducted many of the original national studies on new energy technologies in the 1970s including renewable energy, advanced coal combustion, advanced nuclear, synfuels, and others.

Mr. Eckhart has received numerous awards including the Good Deal for All Award in 2006, the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2008, and the Corporate Responsibility Award in 2009.

Mr. Eckhart served in the US Navy Submarine Service. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School."

Mr. Yuanqing Hou:

"Daniel Yuanqing HOU, China Green Carbon Foundation, Beijing, China
10 October – 10 December 2016 in Brussels
Introduction
The topic of exchange is Climate Change & Low-carbon Development, civil society perspectives on the
2030 – 2050 low-carbon society. The objectives and expectations of Yuanqing’s exchange are as
following:
· Overall view and understanding of Europe efforts and actions for climate change
· Understand and learn missions and activates of NGOs in Europe, especially in Brussels and Berlin on
Climate Change, Forestry and Biodiversity topics
· NGO running experiences and fund raising channel in Europe
· Public awareness and engagement in Climate Change, low carbon development and conservation
Challenges
For me, it was easier to adapt to live, work in Europe. The most surprising thing was the efficiency way
of working in European NGOs. During the short time of the exchange period, I had to get used to the
appointment system and way of working, which was not always easy . I had to plan at least two weeks in
advance to make an appointment and wasn’t always successful. I had to change my visiting strategy,
and directly go to their office or call them. Another challenge I never thought of before is the diversity of
accents in Europe. I had to spend more than one week to adapt to French, Dutch and Germany accents
in English.
Main Activities in Europe
During my time in Brussels, I mainly learnt about EEB ‘s work and visited local NGOs in Brussels. Later I
went to Koln and Berlin visiting project donors’ offices and participated in the twinning workshop."

Ms. Xiajie Li:

A low internet profile, but seemingly not her first time at a COP.

Ms. Qun Luo, Manager, Cerfitication, The Gold Standard Foundation:

"A HIGHER STANDARD
For a Climate Secure and Sustainable World
We are a standard and certification body that stands for the best that can be achieved in climate and development projects.

Established in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs as a best practice standard to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) also delivered on the dual mandate to foster sustainable development. Gold Standard now has more than 80 NGO supporters and 1400+ projects in over 80 countries, creating billions of dollars of shared value from climate and development action worldwide.

And with the launch of our new standard, Gold Standard for the Global Goals, we now certify a range of independently-verified UN SDG impacts in addition to our flagship carbon credits."

Their team all look young and earnest:

https://www.goldstandard.org/our-story/who-we-are

Mr. Yiting Sun, Director, Sustainable Finance, WWF:

"FINANCE'S ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE

Finance is a key lever for change in sustainability and plays a major role in shaping the world we live in. To succeed in tackling some of the most pressing environmental and climate issues, huge amounts of capital need to be shifted to more sustainable, low-carbon sectors. The International Energy Agency’s estimates that $75 trillion [external link] in cumulative investment directed mostly towards renewable and other low carbon energy technologies, as well as energy efficiency measures, is required to keep global temperature rise to below 2C, and avoid the worst effects of global warming. Clearly, the scale of capital required for this shift is beyond the scope of public finance alone, meaning that private finance will be essential to the low carbon transition.

On the other hand, the losses from inaction far surpass what both the public and private sector would be willing to risk, with an Economist Intelligence Unit report, commissioned by Aviva, putting the Value at Risk from 6C warming at $56.8 trillion [external link]. That's over 80% of the current market capitalization of all the world’s stock markets. It is widely accepted that the cost of action to avoid catastrophic climate change increases incrementally as it is delayed.

The current economic model operates under the assumption that the world has unlimited resources. This is unsustainable and results in negative behaviours and outcomes, such as short term economic thinking, environmental degradation and climate change, as well as social inequality and systemic poverty.

THE RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR FINANCE INSTITUTIONS
Failure to integrate environmental factors into decision making puts the capital of financial institutions, as well as those they manage money on behalf of, at unnecessary risk. For instance, there is substantial financial risk from investments in stranded asset that are high carbon and cannot be burned in a world working to stay below a 2C rise of global warming. Another example is the unpaid loans resulting from poor yields in the agricultural sector that are heavily reliant on natural resources such as water.

The risks do not end there for the finance sector. An increase in stakeholder advocacy on environmental issues represents a material risk to the reputation of investors and banks involved in controversial industries. The finance sector, which all but lost its social license to operate after the Global Financial Crisis, is painfully aware that damage to reputation can result in significant impact to bottom line returns.

As an enabler of economic activity, the finance sectors’ performance is strongly correlated with the performance of the economy as a whole. This means, while it is certainly exposed to the myriad of risks associated with environmental factors through its value chain, it is also well positioned to capture value from the opportunities that the sustainable economy presents.

For example, according to Mercer’s study, ‘investing in a time of climate change,’ embedding climate considerations into asset allocation, through investments in renewables and other low carbon technologies, offers the finance sector a way to achieve improved returns while also contributing to the low carbon transition.

Similarly, the Sustainable Development Goals offer a new framework for investment alignment with a strong potential to grow. We are recognising nascent interest in this space from investors.

HOW WWF-UK CAN HELP PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE FINANCE

The financial system can make a difference to our current economic model. It can significantly influence sustainable development by not only better integrating environmental risk, but delivering mechanisms that protect nature and drive sustainable business practices.

This is where we are working to help. Through innovative collaborations, research and advocacy our aim is to help integrate environmental considerations into mainstream finance and lending, and to help shift capital away from high-carbon, unsustainable activities.

We work with banks, investors, asset managers, investment consultants and insurers, to help drive more sustainable investments and lending practices that serve people and the planet. By doing this, we also help them understand the material impact that environmental risks and opportunities such as carbon, water and biodiversity present for their business.

We work globally and in concert with other WWF colleagues in our priority regions to achieve our global goals. With governments, civil society, and regulators, we also work on policy change through advocacy.

Putting the urgent moral and ethical imperative to one side, our work is underpinned by a strong financial argument, which is why sustainable finance and related thinking continues to gain mainstream traction.

We work directly to incentivise the flow of private capital towards conservation and sustainable ecosystems, for instance in forest areas via forest finance mechanisms.

WWF combines expertise in science, conservation, the environment and finance, as well as its experience of bringing together actors from multiple sectors. This combination enables us to help financial institutions reduce their impact on the natural world and develop financial mechanisms which protect and encourage sustainable ecosystems.

Our reach and networks allow us to influence policy to effect sustainable change in governance for the finance sector at a global level.

We're also working to educate our supporter base on how their financial decisions can be used to effect a change toward the sustainable economy."

Ms. Xiangyi Wang, Chief of International Department:

"2011
Members of China Civil Climate Action Network (CCAN) participated in the 19th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and
From May 2-13, 2011, the 19th session of Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was held in New York. With funding support from the German Federal Ministry of the Environment (BMU), three member representatives of CCAN participated in the CSD 19, including Mr. Haoming Huang, Executive Director of CANGO, Ms. Xiangyi Wang, Deputy Chief and Project Manager of project department of CANGO, Ms. Tiannan Ma, Director General of Xiamen Green Cross.

During the conference session, we not only joined the conference and side events, but also met with several international NGOs and government officials, such as Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), SWITCH Asia Network Facility, One Planet Communities, Environmental Protection Agency of United States, Sustainable Development Division of United Nations to exchange project activities conducted each other and discuss possible cooperation in the future. Through this communication, we got valuable background information on the upcoming Rio+20 conference next year and channels for Chinese NGOs participation which will provide basis for Chinese NGOs to track and participate in the international process of Rio+20.

On the last day of the CSD-19 the CCAN secretariat/CANGO organized a side event on the topic of “Chinese NGOs Experiences and Perspectives on Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production in China”. The objectives of the side event were to illustrate that the topic of SCP has already been taken up as a field of engagement among Chinese NGOs, share the results and experiences regarding promotion of SCP in China from NGO perspectives, identify opportunities for future cooperation for promotion of SCP between Chinese NGOs and international experts and organizations and gather input and reflections from international stakeholders through discussion with the audience about possible transfer of international experiences to China – and Chinese experiences to western societies. This side event attracted 33 representatives from 27 organizations participation. Mr. Michael Zhao, producer of the China Green Center of Asia Society acted as the moderator.

The contents of the side event included three parts: overview of government policy and development trends on sustainable consumption and production, Chinese NGO action on promoting sustainable consumption and production and sharing of best practice examples from international and domestic NGOs. Mr. Haoming Huang introduced the latest Chinese government policy of circular economy in the 12th five year plan and recent development trends. Ms. Xiangyi Wang, shared five NGOs projects promoting sustainable consumption and production, including green commuting, low-carbon households, chemicals and environmental health, the Green Choice Alliance, and Shenggeng cooperative farm society. Ms. Lei Wang, China Program Coordinator of Environmental Defense Fund（EDF）introduced EDF’s Green Production and Green Living Programs in China. Ms. Tiannan Ma, Director General of Xiamen Green Cross, introduced green commuting activities in Xiamen. Ms. Yiting Wang, representative of international department of China Youth Climate Action Network (CYCAN) introduced youth action on campus and community mobilization on green living in China.

After presentations, all participants engaged in discussion and interactive exchanges with speakers. The contents included communication between NGOs and government, information sharing and project cooperation between Chinese NGOs and international NGOs, youth involvement, etc. After the meeting, all participants exchanged business card, hoping to keep in touch and strengthen exchange and cooperation in the future."

Ms. Yuan Wang, Manager, Public Action Center, Friends of Nature:

"CCAN 2016 Annual Meeting was Held in Tianjin
China Civil Climate Action Network (CCAN) 2016 Annual Meeting was held in Tianjin, 21-23 April, 2016. 30 representatives from 21 CCAN members gathered together for further cooperation in addressing climate change issues. The agenda includes work plan discussion and CCAN board biennial election, internal training and field trip. Mr. Haoming Huang, Executive Director of CANGO gave a welcome speech during the opening session to talk about the challenges and opportunities for Chinese NGOs. It’s time for Chinese environmental NGOs to have healthy development, pointed out by Mr. Huang in his speech. The Charity Law and the forthcoming Overseas NGO Management Law provide legal basis and safeguard for NGOs. And Chinese environmental NGOs should focus on how to cooperate with the government, improve management capacity, optimize deployment of public and private resources to cope with climate change, participate in global climate governance and international cooperation. Ms. Xiangyi Wang, Director of International Department and Representative of CCAN Secretariat gave a presentation on CCAN 2015 work report and 2016 work plan. Ms. Ting Xu, Project Manager of Heinrich Boell Foundation (hbs) introduced their project and expressed their willingness to continually support CCAN development. Ms. Li Li, Executive Director of EnviroFriends and Chinese Coordinator of East-Asia Forum on Climate Change gave briefing on preparation work of the 5th East-Asia Forum on Climate Change which will be held in Kyoto, Japan. Three representatives from CCAN member organizations will participate in this upcoming forum. During the work plan discussion session, 21 CCAN member organizations shared 2016 work plan on climate change respectively and followed group discussion on potential cooperation opportunities. During CCAN board biennial election, 5 current board members shared their experience and provided suggestions to next CCAN board. New CCAN board members, including Ms. Li Li from EnviroFriends, Ms. Yuan Wang from Friends of Nature, Mr. Tao Zhang from Friends of Green China Tianjin, Ms. Hong Ye from Yangtze Delta Ecology Society and Ms. Xiangyi Wang from CCAN secretariat, were selected through voting by all participating members. During the internal training session, Ms. Yuan Wang, Project Manager of Low-carbon Family, Friends of Nature introduced project design and management process and Ms. Yu Sun, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Impact Assessment made speech on NGOs and media in aim to strengthen NGOs’ capacity for media promotion. In addition, Ms. Chao Jiang from Rock Environment and Energy Institute introduced Health Impact Assessment (HIA), Global Green and Healthy Hospitals (GGHH) and 2020 Healthcare Climate Change Challenge. Ms. Hongyu Guo from Greenovation Hub presented updates of NGO in the field of climate change engaging 2016 G20. Mr. Chunliang Li from Pesticide Eco-Alternatives Center introduced projects on ecological agriculture and marketing. A field trip was organized on the last day, participants came to the coast in Binhai New Area to pick up marine debris to support Coastal Cleanup and Monitoring Project in China. One of this project’s twelve monitoring points is set in the coastal area in Tianjin, which Friends of Green China Tianjin, a CCAN member organization, takes charge of."

Not sure about the translation - but these climate warriors do love their travel and meetings!

Mr. Haibin Zhang:

A common name on the internet, but I'm guessing this is him:

"Dr. Haibin Zhang is an associate professor at Peking University’s School of International Studies. His major research areas are global environmental politics and international organisations."

If so, he writes articles that appear at places like this:

https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1668-China-and-the-US-moving-forward-on-climate-part-two-

Ms. Jiaoyang Zhang, Senior Manager, Strategy & Consult, Zhongcheng Carbon Asset Management (Beijing) Co. Ltd:

A common name, so I'm not sufficiently confident to post anything. But "carbon asset management"? This green climate thing is creating lots of jobs, that's for sure, but how many of them are really useful or contribute to society?

China Association for Science and Technology sent 8 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

http://english.cast.org.cn/

According to Wikipedia:

"The China Association for Science and Technology is a non-profit, non-governmental organization of Chinese scientists and engineers, which is composed of 167 national professional societies and hundreds of local branches at various levels."

Or as they describe themselves:

"As the largest non-governmental organization of scientific and technological professionals in China, the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) serves as a bridge that links the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government to the country's science and technology community. Through its 210 national member societies and local branches all over the country, CAST maintains close ties with millions of Chinese scientists, engineers and other professionals working in the fields of science and technology.

The history of CAST can trace back to the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 when a number of the nation's primary scientific and technological organizations gathered at a meeting to call upon the country's science and technology community to dedicate all their efforts to the building of New China. The meeting led to the birth in 1950 of two new national organizations --the All-China Federation of Natural Science Societies and the All-China Association for Science Popularization. In September 1958, the two organizations decided at their joint congress to merge into a unified single organization -- the China Association for Science and Technology.

Since its inauguration, CAST has made significant contributions to the prosperity and development of science and technology, to the popularization of science and technology among the public, to the emerging of large numbers of professional talents, and to the overall economic and social development in China.

As the bridge linking Chinese science and technology community with the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government, CAST is a constituent member of the country’s top political advisory body -- the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), where it joins all the political parties and other social groups in the state affairs through political consultation, policy-making and democratic supervision.

The highest leading organ of CAST is the National Congress that meets every five years and the National Committee elected by it. The President of the current National Committee is Prof. Wan Gang. The Secretariat appointed by the National Committee is responsible for the daily operation of CAST, which is headed by the Chief Executive Secretary -- Dr. Huai Jinpeng.

Major tasks of CAST include:

1) to carry out academic exchanges, activate academic thinking, promote the development of all scientific disciplines, and stimulate independent innovation.

2) to organize scientific and technological professionals to contribute to the establishment of a technological innovation system that takes enterprises as the main body and can significantly enhance the enterprises’ innovation ability.

3) to carry forward the scientific spirit, popularize scientific knowledge and disseminating scientific ideas and methods according to the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Science and Technology Popularization; uphold the dignity of science, promote the application of advanced technologies, encourage and organize science educational activities among children and youth, and improve the scientific literacy of all citizens.

4) to reflect suggestions, opinions and demands of scientific and technological professionals, and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.

5) to push forward the establishment and improvement of a research integrity supervision mechanism, and promote the construction of scientific ethics and a fine style of study.

6) to organize scientific and technological professionals to participate in the making of science- and technology-related policies and laws; organize scientific and technological professionals to participate in the political consultation, scientifically informed decisions and democratic supervision of state affairs.

7) to recognize and reward outstanding scientific and technological professionals, and recommend scientific and technological talents.

8) to provide scientific augmentation and consulting services, and policy advice, facilitate the transformation ofresearch results; undertake project evaluation and appraisal, participate in the formulation of technical standards, professional qualification accreditation.

9) to organize international science and technology exchange programs, promote international scientific and technological cooperation, and develop cooperative relations with scientific and technological organizations and personnel worldwide.

10) to carry out continuing education and training programs.

11) to develop social and public welfare institutions cohering to the aim of the China Association for Science and Technology.

CAST maintains cooperative relations with scientific and technological organizations of many countries and, as the representative of the Chinese science and technology community, is the national members of ICSU, WFEO and many other international scientific and technological organizations. In 2004, CAST was granted consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations."

Delegates:

Mr. Wenjie Dong:

"Professor and Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, China. Served as Director-General, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration during 2003-2008; as a Member of Scientific Planning Group for China of Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research since 2006; as a member of Scientific Steering Committee of CLIVAR/WCRP since 2007; as Chairmen of GEWEX-CNC since 2005; as the lead author of WGI of IPCC AR5 since 2010 and the P.I. of the project “Multi-model ensemble projection and attribution of climate change based on CMIP5”. His research interests cover: global change, climate dynamics and climate prediction, land-atmosphere interactions, regional and global climate modeling, flood and drought, monsoon dynamics, orderly human activity and living environment. More than 130 papers published."

Mr. Tianjun Zhou:

"I am a scientist in the State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. My research interests include coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling and climate dynamics, East Asian climate change and climate variability, air-sea interaction and Asian-Australian monsoon predictability."

Mr. Xi Chen:

"Xi started his PhD in March 2015 at the Climate Change Research Center at the UNSW. During his PhD career, he will be comparing and combining the satellite-based new microwave with traditional optical observations, to see if it could help us better understand the dynamics of the vegetation. In order to answer this question, bushfires in Australia, croplands in China and deforestation activities in tropical areas will be investigated, which are in different land cover types and with different economic and ecological impacts.

Xi, is from Nanjing, China, and finished his Master’s degree there."

Ms. Chenchen Wang:

"A new round of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) opened in Bonn, Germany on 6 November 2017, which would last until 17 November 2017. Further discussion on the rules for the implementation of the Paris Agreement will be conducted in this conference. More than 25,000 delegates from 195 parties to the Paris Agreement attend the conference. The Chinese government sent a delegation composed of delegates from related departments and experts to attend the conference. The German media appreciated the adoption of measures and policy for the mitigation and adaption to climate change by China in recent years and the Chinese solutions－actions promoting the global climate governance by China.

...

Dr. Chenchen Wang from China Association for Science and Technology and Dr. Lei Lin from Sun Yat-sen University presented the application of “Tianhe-2” supercomputer system (housed in the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou located at Sun Yat-sen University) in the development of Atmospheric and Oceanic model, weather forecast, climate prediction and evaluation of climate change. Through video and images, the simulation and prediction of high-resolution global and regional motion of atmosphere and ocean were displayed.

The two-week exhibition displays the latest progress in the development and application of supercomputer in China, especially China’s important role in the study of climate change, attracting many delegates and media to visit and discuss, and bringing international attention.

It is learned that since its establishment in 2005, the School of Atmospheric Sciences at Sun Yat-sen University has chaired two projects related to “climate change and its adaption” funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China. The platform of “climate change and its adaption” has been built. With the support of “Tianhe-2”, Sun Yat-sen University has achieved a rapid progress in the R&D and application of weather and climate system model, yielding impressive results in serving national strategies, cultivating talents for mitigating climate change and related research."

Mr. Lei Lin:

As above.

Mr. Jiang Zhu:

Is this him?:

"In 2017, the oceans were by far the hottest ever recorded
The second-hottest year recorded at Earth’s surface was the hottest in its oceans

...This important ocean information was just released today by a world-class team of researchers from China. The researchers (Lijing Cheng and Jiang Zhu) found that the upper 2000 meters (more than 6000 feet) of ocean waters were far warmer in 2017 than the previous hottest year. We measure heat energy in Joules. It turns out that 2017 was a record-breaking year, 1.51 × 1022 Joules hotter than any other year. For comparison, the annual electrical generation in China is 600 times smaller than the heat increase in the ocean...."

Mr. Yi Zou, Business Manager, China Beijing Environment Exchange:

"Stronger Markets, Cleaner Air CARBON EMISSIONS TRADING Rolling out a Successful Carbon Trading System Co-Authors Josh Margolis and Daniel J. Dudek Environmental Defense Fund Anders Hove Paulson Institute Chinese Strategic Advisors Junfeng Li ( 李俊峰 ) Xiliang Zhang ( 张希良 ) Dewen Mei ( 梅德文 ) National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation of China Institute of Energy Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University China Beijing Environment Exchange Jeff Huang ( 黄杰夫 ) Wei Liu ( 刘伟 ) Brian McLean Maarten Neelis Blake Schaeffer Guojun Song ( 宋国君 ) Xiliang Zhang ( 张希良 ) Yi Zou ( 邹毅 ) External Reviewers International Emissions Trading Association China Beijing Environment Exchange Brian McLean Associates Ecofys Platinum Partners Renmin University Institute of Energy Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University China Beijing Environmental Exchange Those acknowledged as advisors and reviewers do not necessarily endorse the views expressed in the paper."

Mr. Cheng Zhou, General Manager, Head Office, China Beijing Environment Exchange:

"Zhou Cheng, vice president of the Beijing Environmental Exchange speaks during an interview at his office in Beijing, China. With China's greenhouse gas emissions doubling over the past decade, the fate of the world's climate depends on whether China can cut back on the coal-fired power plants, automobiles and other emission sources that have released hundreds of millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. With next year's rollout, a successful carbon offset market would clearly play a big part in China's larger plan to rein in emissions"

China Green Carbon Foundation sent 7 delegates to COP 23 (I never knew that carbon was green - you learn something every day). Their website is here:

http://www.thjj.org/en/

"Founded in 2010, the China Green Carbon Foundation (CGCF) is the first nation-wide non-profit public funding foundation dedicated to combating climate change by increasing carbon sink in China. The precursor of the Foundation is China Green Carbon Fund founded in 2007. CGCF, approved by the State Council, was registered at the Ministry of Civil Affairs and operated under the governance of the State Forestry Administration of the PRC. CGCF provides a platform for enterprises and citizens to fulfill their social responsibility by storing carbon credit mainly through forestry measures.

•We insist on
Green Foundation, green dream, Offset Our Carbon Emissions Now!
•We encourage
Reduce What You Can, Offset What You Can't.
•We promise
Efficient donation application, professional project execution, sophisticated process supervision and significant public benefits."

"Our mission
To promote activities of combating climate change including afforestation, forest management, decreasing deforestation and other activities associated with increasing carbon sink and reducing emissions.
To spread relevant knowledge so as to strengthen public capacity of combating climate change.
To support and perfect the Forest Effect Compensation Mechanism of China."

Delegates:

Mr. Yu He, Finance Director, Secretariat:

Difficult to track him down with confidence. Is this him?:

"President of the Board of Directors

Mr. Liu Yuhe: Former Vice Minister of Forestry"

Mr. Yeyun He, Director, Public Relation:

"China’s Efforts in Demarcating Property Right of Forestry Carbon Sinks Draw High Attention from Warsaw UN Climate Change Conference

Media:CHINAGREEN TIMES Author: Hongmei Ding, Yeyun He"

Ms. Hui Jing:

Is this her?:

"Ms. Jing Hui is Director of Communications of Energy Foundation China, responsible for branding, communication strategy development, public relations and influence building. Before joining Energy Foundation China in August 2015, Ms. Jing worked at WWF (China) as Executive Director of Organisation Development, overseeing communications, corporate relations and the membership program. During her 10 years at WWF, she led many successful campaigns such as Earth Hour, which serve as important carriers for China’s public engagement activities for environmental protection.

Ms. Jing also worked as Director of a brand consultancy firm, government relation and business development specialist of multi-national companies, and international program officer of a government agency.

Ms. Jing holds Master’s degree in Creative and Media Enterprises from Warwick University, UK, and Bachelor’s degree in English from Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute. She has completed Program of Executive Development from IMD."

Mr. Guomo Zhou:

"Next, in his speech, Mr. Zhou Guomo, President of Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, said that the establishment of this Institute will serve as a new bridge for the cultural and educational exchanges between the people in China and Serbia. Establishing this Institute together certainly further strengthens the exchange and partnership between the two universities. He expressed his firm belief that this Confucius Institute will become an important window through which people in Novi Sad and even Serbia could understand Chinese culture."

Ms. Jianming Wang:

This looks like her:

"Jianming Wang's research while affiliated with Chinese Academy of Sciences and other places

Publication Preview
Catalytic Performance of Monolithic Foam Ni/SiC Catalyst in Carbon dioxide Reforming of Methane to Synthesis Gas"

Ms. Haiqun Yu:

"Soil respiration in a mixed urban forest in China in relation to soil temperature and water content

[Co-author]: Haiqun Yu - Beijing Forestry Carbon Administration, Beijing 100013, PR China"

Mr. Fengjie An, Chairman, China National Sand Control and Desert Industry Society, China Association for Science and
Technology:

"China's Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest rail system, is being threatened by desertification on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as a result of global warming, experts concluded after conducting a probe.

About 443 km of the 1,956-km railway are in areas affected by desertification, including 103 km that lie in seriously desertified areas, Wang Jinchang, a senior engineer with the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Co, said on Monday.

Wang cited research showing that the threat of soil erosion grew very fast in recent years, mostly near rivers and wetland from Golmud and Lhasa, and the amount of affected track almost doubled from 2003 to 2009.

Touted the "Road to Heaven", half of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was built on areas at an elevation of about 4,000 meters, crossing mountains, ravines, the Gobi Desert and frozen earth, among other hostile environments.

An Fengjie, an official with China's State Forestry Administration who specializes in soil erosion control, said the plateau region suffered from desertification long before the railway was built.

"The railway did not cause the problem, but it gives us an opportunity to witness the severity and scale of soil-erosion on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau," An said."

China New Energy Chamber of Commerce sent 13 delegates to COP 23. Their website is here:

http://www.cnecc.org.cn/en/

"China New Energy Chamber of Commerce (CNECC) was initiated by new energy companies in private sector in January 2006, which is one of 29 organizations administrated by All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC). Approved by the State Council and officially registered in Ministry of Civil Affairs in October 2011, CNECC becomes a nationwide legal community. As a non-profit organization, CNECC consists of enterprises, communities and individuals involved in the new energy related to manufacturing, construction, operation as well as service, etc. Till now, it includes more than 800 members in the fields of solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydro, and other renewable energies. Members also covers energy storage and distribution, energy saving and efficiency, carbon emissiion reduction and trading, etc.The core members of CNECC includes Hanergy Holding Group, LONGi Green Energy, Hi-Tech Wealth, Jiangsu Sunrain Solar Energy, Jiangsu Akcome, Trina Solar, Tongwei Group, Rayspower, Astronergy, China Sunergy, which are all top leaders in the new energy industry in China and abroad.

A. What Can We Do?

Communication bridge between government and enterprises
Speaking for the NE Industry——Appealing implementation of industrial policy
Building brand activities——China New Energy International Forum & China New Energy International Exhibition
Compiling NE information——Annual Report on China's New Energy Industry
Making professional training, special topic investigation and research;
Organizing international exchange and communication
Providing other customized services
B. Why Join Us?

You can be the member of the most representative NE organization in China
You can get latest China's NE industrial information
You can get latest China's NE market information
You can gain communication opportunities with China's NE enterprises
You can establish relationship with China's NE institute
You can make dialogue to Chinese government through us"

Delegates:

Mr. Xiangdong Song, Vice President, China Quality Certification Center:

Recently attended the Global Green Energy and PV Financial Summit; no notes against his name.

Ms. Jie Yu, Director, China Quality Certification Center:

A low internet profile, but not her first COP.

Mr. Yongzhang Zhou, Director, Earth and Environment Center, SunYat-Sen University:

"ZHOU Yongzhang, Director of the Centre for Research on Resources and Environment of the Earth at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, President of the Association of Guangdong Industry and Low Carbon Technologies" - attending "China-Europa Dialogue
Facing Climate Change: Rethinking Our Global Development Model Conference" at the Paris COP.

Mr. Xianming Qin, Deputy Chief Engineer, China Building Material Test & Certification Group Co., Ltd:

"Mr. Qin Xianming has been serving as Deputy General Manager in China Building Material Test & Certification Group Co., Ltd. since July 2016. He is also Chairman of the Board in a Xiamen-based company, as well as General Manager and Executive Director in a Beijing-based company."

Ms. Huanzhi Gao, Deputy Secretary-General, The Nonferrous Metals Society of China:

A low internet profile.

Mr. Hongpeng Lei, Director, Climate, Children's Investment Fund Foundation:

"REPORT: China’s Rapid Urbanization to Play Key Role in Curbing Country’s Climate Pollution
Sustainable Urban Land Use, Transportation and Building Efficiency Critical to China’s Climate Success
December 10, 2014...

WRI China Energy Program Lead Lei Hongpeng introduced the report on behalf of the five organizations. He noted that Chinese cities need to practice transit-oriented development so that transportation and urban planning can be closely integrated. Reducing the demand for private cars and strengthening non-motorized transit systems should be priorities while Chinese cities promote sustainable development."

Ms. Ling Cao, Deputy Director, China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association:

"Dear colleagues and friends,

Thank you for your interest in 2018 The 9th China Petroleum & Chemical International Conference.

As the national organization voicing the interest of petroleum and chemical industry, we are privileged to establish this high-profile conference with significant global influence in close cooperation with key stakeholders to this industry. Since its birth, the China Petroleum & Chemical International Conference has been committing to serve as an inclusive cooperation platform to engage foremost policy makers, business leaders, experts from academic institutions and international organizations for sharing their wisdom and insights, for generating constructive debates and empowering strategic decision making, thus to help leaders better prepared for challenges as well as opportunities facing the petroleum and chemical industry.

Themed as “Defining the Future-2030 & Beyond”, 2018 The 9th China Petroleum & Chemical International Conference will cover crucial topics including The Belt and Road Initiative: China Initiative, Worldwide Opportunities; "Going West" Strategy for Multinationals; Industrial Guideline Regarding Climate Change, Low Carbon and Circular Economy, Green and Sustainable Development; Resolution of Air Pollution prevention, Restoration of the image of Chemical industry; Future Application of Advanced Materials and New Energy in the fields of Green Mobility; Upcoming Investment Highlights: Innovative Combination of Production and Finance. Meanwhile, parallel session like ‘2018 the 2nd China Petroleum and Chemical International Production Capacity Cooperation Conference’, ‘2018 the 3rd Global Summit on Chemical Safety and Security’, China-Japan Policy Dialogue and other complementary sub-meetings and exhibitions will be held to better satisfy the need for international cooperation of the said industry.

On behalf of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, I cordially invite you to attend this conference and to play a part in the healthy development of the industry."

The above quote was from her company, not from Ling Cao, who has a low internet profile.

Ms. Weiqing Zhu, President:

"Energy Storage China & Smart Energy China 2018
Tang Shan Southlake Convention and Exhibition Center
19 - 21 September, 2018

Enterprise Carbon Asset Comprehensive Utilization Service Plan
-Ms. Zhu Weiqing, President of Shanghai Treasure Carbon New Energy Environmental Protection Co., Ltd

Topic: Under ‘the One Belt And One Road’ Policy, How to Promote the Development of Smart Energy Industry Through Energy Big Data
Panelist:
-Ms. Liu Huiping, Senior Engineer of Shanghai Municipal Development & Reform Commission Energy Research Institute
-Mr. Shang Haoliang, General Manager of Beijing North-Star Technology Development Co., Ltd.
- Mr. Wei Wei, General Marketing Manager of China Mobile IoT Company Limited
-Ms. Zhu Weiqing, President of Shanghai Treasure Carbon New Energy Environmental Protection Co., Ltd."

Mr. Zhixiang Chen, Chairman, China Hubei Emission Exchange Co, Ltd:

Another low internet profile, but definitely also attended COP 22.

Ms. Kathryn Logan, Outreach Director, Green Supply Chain, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE):

From the Skoll website (just been under discussion on Unthreaded):

"Kate is Green Choice Outreach Director at IPE, a non-profit environmental organization based in Beijing that promotes information disclosure and public participation as means of strengthening environmental governance mechanisms, reducing emissions and improving environmental quality. Her main work focuses on outreach surrounding IPE’s green supply chain initiative to integrate transparency and stakeholder participation into existing supply chain management systems. Prior to joining IPE, she received a Princeton-in-Asia fellowship to serve as a research fellow on the China Environmental Law & Governance Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Beijing, where she researched the implementation of environmental public interest litigation in China. Kate is a summa cum laude graduate of Middlebury College (VT) with a B.A. in International and Global Studies – East Asia (focus on Economics)."

Mr. Xiaoping Xiong, Deputy Director, Energy Research Institute of National Development and Reform Commission:

"November 23, 2017, China Energy Modeling Forum Technical Workshop - Bonn Climate Conference and Future Trends in Climate Change Management were held at School of Public Management, Tsinghua University. The workshop was chaired by Dr. Zhang Jianyu, chief representative of the Beijing Office, Environmental Defense Fund. Professor Lu Jianming, Deputy Director General of Department of Climate Change, National Development and Reform Commission, Professor He Jiankun, former Vice President of Tsinghua University, Professor Wang Can of Environmental School, Professor Duan Maosheng of 3E Research Institute, Researcher Xiong Xiaoping of Energy Research Institute of the NDRC and other well-known experts and scholars, negotiators and other stakeholders participating in the Bonn Climate Conference shared the latest agreements of the conference and the future works to climate change, with special attention to the impact on Climate Change at home and abroad for both United States which withdrawn from the Paris Agreement and China which launched its national carbon market."

Mr. Mathias Lund Larsen, International Cooperation Executive/Researcher, International Institute of Green Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics:

"Director of International Cooperation as well as Research Fellow, IIGF.

He is specialized in the role of the private sector in sustainable development, having worked for UN-Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya and the UN Global Compact in New York, USA. Research focuses on relations between Chinese and international green finance, including within bonds, climate finance flows, and multilateral development bank cooperation.

- Double master in international business & politics and CEMS international management from Copenhagen Business School, Warsaw School of Economics, and Rotterdam School of Management.

- Double master in international development and international relations from Sciences Po Paris and Peking University.

- Written several publications for the UN.

- Languages: English, Chinese, Danish."

Ms. Yao Wang:

I'm guessing this is her:

"Professor Yao Wang is the Director General of International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF), and the Director of the Research Center for Climate and Energy Finance (RCCEF), Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), the Deputy Secretary General of Green Finance Committee (GFC) of China Society for Finance and Banking, the Director General of Southern China Guangdong Institute of Science and Technology. She is also the Adjunct Professor of University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and University of Victoria, Australia, and an expert of Asian Development Bank. In 2010–2011, she was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.

Biography:
Professor Wang is interested in Low Carbon Economy, Climate Finance and Green Finance. She is the author of Carbon Finance: Global Vision and Distribution in China (China Economic Publishing House, 2010), Climate Finance (China Economic Publishing House, 2013), and several other publications and working papers on climate finance and green finance. She worked as a senior manager in Securities Companies (investment bank) for seven years, and has considerable underwriting experiences."