The “GAD-CBCGDF Sustainability Leadership Platform” is an exclusive cooperation scheme between UIC’s Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme and the Beijing-based China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), aimed at increasing GAD students’ opportunities for research on, active engagement in and exposure to nationally and internationally relevant initiatives concerning various aspects of sustainable development – from poverty alleviation to circular economy, from natural resource management to global environmental governance, from UNSDG promotion to Green Belt and Road Initiative.

CBCGDF is: member of the UN Global Compact and of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); partner to the Convention on Migratory Species (UNEP/CMS); a member of the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN); observer to The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); data publisher to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF); accredited partner to UN Environment; member of CITES' Standing Committee's Intersessional Working Groups; accredited observer of United Nation's Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES); member of the Belt and Road Life Science Economy Alliance (LSEA).

For more about CBCGDF, please visit: http://www.cbcgdf.org/English/index.html