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Greenpeace China
Mission: "To expose global environmental problems, and force solutions for a green and peaceful future . . . To ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity."
In China since: 1997
Annual China budget: $2.5 million USD
Number of staff: 77 national
Mainland China contact:Lo Sze Ping
Campaign & Communications Director
北京100027东城区蓝筹名座D座1单元601室à北京朝阳区 朝外大街吉庆里 蓝筹名座E座2区19层 (邮编:100020)
Rm601, Unit 1, Block D, Lanchou Building, Dongcheng District 100027
Tel: + 86 (0)10 6554 6931
Activities in Other Countries:
28 national member organisations
The environmental activist network, Greenpeace International, is made up of 28 national organisations. A Greenpeace Hong Kong was established in 1997, and has been developing a presence on the mainland since 2002.
The mainland operations were initially run from premises in Sun Yatsen (Zhongshan) University in Guangzhou, where Greenpeace conducted a food safety campaign and advocated for a ‘Green Guangzhou’ through a green community initiative. An office was subsequently established in Beijing, where the organising is planning to develop a team of mainland Chinese staff who combine campaigning skills with in-depth knowledge of their environmental specialisation.
Future work will attempt to influence national policy debates and educate and inform the public in four main areas:
- Renewable energy (identified as the number one priority issue)
- Genetically modified crops and related food safety issues
- Toxic waste, especially the highly polluting electronic waste processing industry
- Forestry, including promoting sustainable timber sources now that domestic policy has made China a major consumer of the products of illegal logging elsewhere in Asia.
In the West, spectacular ‘direct action’ tactics have helped make Greenpeace a household name. Greenpeace will not again attempt direct action protests in China, according to Deputy Campaign & Communications Director, Sze Pang Cheung.
but will concentrate on ‘putting solutions in place.’ He believes the Chinese government is responsive to constructive advocacy, and that the Chinese mass media are also receptive to the critical themes that Greenpeace has identified.
Greenpeace is now actively exploring registration as a mainland Chinese NGO. Currently, the Beijing office is registered under business laws.
As a matter of policy Greenpeace International does not to accept corporate or government funding. Member organisations are funded mainly by individual donations and membership fees. In China, Greenpeace has received funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for its work on food safety.
CKC 5/07
Links
http://www.greenpeace.org.cn
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