IFINE Environmental is an environmental charity organization dedicated to solving the problems of urban waste. We have promoted waste sorting solutions in 343 communities, covering more than 205,912 households. We cooperate with communities, schools, and government departments, so as to guide the public to pay attention to environmental issues.
In 1991, world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall started Roots & Shoots, a program designed to educate youths about environmental issues and humanitarian values with a special focus on group interaction. Roots & Shoots unites those who hold certain values in common: love for animals, care for the community, and devotion to protecting the environment. Shanghai Roots & Shoots was founded as a volunteer organization in November 1999. Five years later, in November 2004, Shanghai Roots & Shoots was granted a Non-Profit Organization status by the Shanghai Municipality Government.
The sustainable programs and ESG services run by Shanghai Roots & Shoots includes:
Million Tree Project - fighting against desertification.
Eco Office Program - cultivating company Green Ambassadors.
YES Program - lecturing green classes in school.
Organic Garden Program - farming organically on campus.
KidStrong Project - building a brighter future for migrant children.
And Dragon Recycling Project - recycling all that can be recycled.
Founded in May 2008, China Doll Rare Disease Care Center has long been committed to providing medical, life, education and employment support for patients with osteogenesis imperfectia and other rare bone diseases, advocating public attention and support for rare bone disease groups, and promoting the continuous improvement of protection policies. Since its establishment, the center has provided medical rehabilitation assistance for more than 2,000 people, and various services have covered more than 4,000 families with rare bone diseases. Brand public welfare projects include "Iron Man Program", "Pocket Money Program", "Independent Living Program" and so on.
China Zigen Rural Education and Development Association is a non-profit organization dedicating to promote an equitable, people-centered society that upholds sustainable development. It supports people living in poverty in rural China to improve their unmet basic needs in the areas of basic education, primary health care, environmentally appropriate technologies and preservation of local culture.
To promote the idea of Education for Sustainable Development, China Zigen has been supporting more than 70 pilot rural Green Eco Schools and 20 Green Eco Villages throughout 11 provinces in China, including Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Shanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongaolia, Hebei, Henan, Hebei, Anhui, etc.
Through Green Eco Schools, we work with partner rural schools to fulfill students and teachers’ basic needs, providing environmentally friendly facilities, engaging students in gender education, environmental education, local culture preservation, providing teachers Education for Sustainable Development training. Through Green Eco Village program, we promote forestation and sustainable agriculture, supporting women’s group and elderly association in rural China, to empower the residents and engage students, teachers, and the community to build a sustainable village together.
Shenzhen Spring Environmental Protection Volunteers Association was founded in 2011, committed to coastal natural ecological resources conservation, water environment protection. Through the establishment of the volunteer empowerment Action network, we will promote the joint efforts of all sectors of society to promote environmentally sustainable development by means of environmental survey and conservation actions, volunteer training, environmental education, technical programs and professional consultation.
Shanghai ForNGO Legal Research and Service Center for Social Organizations is a 4A social organization, referred to as "Forngo". Forngo is the first social think-tank on non-profit organization law in China, and a supportive platform for social organizations to build their professional legal capacity. The purpose of Forngo is to promote the operation of social organizations complying with the law, and to promote the development of public welfare and non-profit organizations in China.
There are main two programs about ESG.
The first program, In 2023, we've conducted a program called Youth Legal Camp (Nature and Us), which based on the ESG concepts and the environment issues. Our project aims to select a group of outstanding junior lawyers, law school students, and NGO representatives interested in environmental law from China to participate in a year-long empowerment project, where they will take part in lectures delivered by scholars and practitioners working in different ways to resolve environmental issues, observe and experience fieldwork by paying on-site visits to local NGOs that work to end environmental crises and build a network with others who share the same interest and passion.
The second, we published ESG-related knowledge packages on the Professional Public Welfare Encyclopedia Knowledge Platform Yilight, including, World Environment Day, Earth Hour, Sustainable Cities, etc., to help more people to understand the environment, esg and other aspects of knowledge.