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Global Links Initiative(GLI)

Written by admin on 04 April 2010

http://www.glinet.org/

Global Links Initiative is a nonprofit organization which aims to support positive and creative action on social inclusion and citizen empowerment worldwide. Using information technology as an enabler, Global Links Initiative aims to foster practical links among socially entrepreneurial people around the world as well as promote partnership with government and business.

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Fulfilling Human Needs without Trashing Our Planet

Written by admin on 04 April 2010

【城市新闻】| City

By Peter Jiang, Chloe Chen in Shanghai, Jointing.Media 2010-02-10

Original in Chinese

Presentation from Cyrille Jegu in Shanghai

Source:SIP China

SIP China’s members attended the lecture on the night of February 1st. This session’s topic was “Social Entrepreneurship: ‘Fulfilling Human Needs without Trashing Our Planet’”

Cyrille Jegu, the speaker of this lecture, French citizen from Britain, is the Executive Director of TNS Asia, and the Ambassador of UK Energy Saving Trust. Cyrille holds an MBA from Macquarie University (Australia), and has completed post-graduate studies on Sustainable Development at Cambridge University (UK) and Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden).

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Low Carbon and Sustainability

Written by admin on 20 March 2010

【能源与环境】 | Energy & Environment

By Jointing.Media, 2010-03-10

JM: Low carbon life is current popular topic in China. Chinese goverment is begining to carry out Low Carbon pilot cities. What kind of issues shoud be meet in the process throught western experience in sustainable development in your opinion?

Cyrille Jegu: Western governments are facing the same issues as the Chinese government because they have little experience if any, of a low carbon economy. The issue that all industrialised government face is that the infrastructure (transport & energy production) are fossil fuel dependent. One of the advantages that China has over fully industrialised countries, beside it’s government decision making process, is the fact that it’s infrastructure is still growing so it can choose which way it goes.

An other challenge that everyone is facing is to use system thinking to solve complex and interconnected issues simultaneously

Finally, a low carbon economy/life is not just about hardware (infrastructure) it also about software (people)

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