Asia Experience
Resource Futures International (RFI) has been active in South and East Asia for more than ten years. We have extensive experience in China and India, and have provided services for international development projects in the areas of sustainable development, Multilateral Environmental Agreements (including climate change, hazardous waste and chemicals) and environmental management. Our range of services includes:
- Capacity building
- Institutional strengthening
- Project design and management
- Technical assistance
- Technology transfer
- Bangladesh Government's National Implementation Plan Under The Stockholm Convention (UNDP) (2004-2005)
- Bangladesh Environmental Management Project; Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) (1999-2004)
- Training on Compressed Natural Gas as a Transportation Fuel for Environmental Improvement in Bangladesh; Environment Canada (2001-2002)
- Strengthening Environmental Impact Assessment Procedures and Capabilities in Cambodia; Asian Development Bank (1995-1996)
- Institutional Strengthening for the Cambodian Ministry of the Environment; USAID (1996)
- Design of a Multi-Year CDN $12-17 Million Project In China To Advance Implementation Of MEAs, CIDA (2006-ongoing)
- Executing Agency for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Component of the Canada-China Cooperation on Climate Change (C5) Project; CIDA (2002-2004)
- Strategic Framework for Environment Canada's Bilateral Climate Change Cooperation with China; Environment Canada (2004)
- Study to Survey Technology Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Reductions in China and Canadian Supply Capabilities; Environment Canada, Industry Canada and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) (1999-2000)
- Sino-Canada Workshop on Advancing Joint Collaboration on Climate Change; Environment Canada (1999)
- Sustainable Cities Workshop; Industry Canada (1999)
- Facilitation of an International Patent for Macroenergy, a Chinese Energy Efficiency Invention; private sector holding company in the United States, China Project Groups and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1997)
- ISO and China; World Conservation Union (1996)
- Strategic Framework for Environment Canada's Bilateral Climate Change Cooperation with India; Environment Canada (2004)
- Project to Facilitate Clean Development Mechanism Projects in India; DFAIT (2002-2004)
- Capacity Building Project to Develop a Strategic Framework for the Management of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in India; World Bank (2001-2002)
- Improving Environmental Management at the State Level in Madhya Pradesh, India; Asian Development Bank (2001-2002)
- Management Support to the Indian Ministry of Environmental and Forests - Environment Canada, Environmental Institutional Strengthening Project; Environment Canada (2001)
- The Impact of Urban Environmental Improvements on Poverty in India; Environment Canada (2001)
- Development of a Corporate Management System for the National Thermal Power Corporation; CIDA-Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Project (2001-2002)
- Development of a Prototype Corporate Sustainability Management System for Indian Industry; CIDA-CII Project (2000-2001)
- Project Planning Mission regarding the Establishment of an India-International Advisory Council and Centre of Excellence in Environmental Policy, Science and Technology; Environment Canada (2000-2001)
- Trade and Environment in the Indian Textile and Leather Sectors; CIDA-CII Project (1998-2000)
- Voluntary Environmental Agreements in the Cement and Metallurgical Sectors; CIDA-CII Project (1997-1999)
- Institutional Strengthening of Nepal's Ministry of Population and the Environment; Asian Development Bank (1998-2000)
- Institutional Strengthening in Support of the Pakistan Environment Programme; (in cooperation with the World Conservation Union) CIDA (1996-2000)
- Tree Link; CIDA (1998-2002) Environmental Impact Assessment Training in Thailand; CIDA (1994-1997)
- Vietnam National Chemicals Management Case Study; World Bank/OECD (2007)