Overview
Lobbying Costs
500,000€ - 599,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)
EU Transparency Register
929235131654-14 First registered on 05 Jun 2018
Goals / Remit
GeSI’s mission is to harness digital innovation to tackle global sustainability challenges. We collaborate across the world with over one hundred partners including the European Union (EU), United Nations (UN), leading universities, small and medium enterprise business associations such as TCP in Taiwan, industry groups such as Connect Europe, and non-profits such as the Carbon Disclosure Project.
Our goal is to drive a world where digital innovation fosters extraordinary social, economic, and environmental progress, enhancing the quality of life for everyone. By partnering with forward-thinking collaborators worldwide, we are dedicated to leveraging technology to solve the world’s most pressing issues. Together, we aim to ensure that the digital revolution uplifts every individual while protecting our planet for generations to come.Main EU files targeted
GeSI works to raise awareness of the potential of digital and ICT to enable the transition to a low-carbon economy.
While in the past most of our interactions with policy-makers have happened in global contexts such as the United Nations and the COP meetings on climate, the organization is now stepping up its activities in Brussels.
This includes more active interaction with the European institutions on the Digital Single Market (ePrivacy Regulation, digital service tax Directive); the EU climate change work (in particular on the implementation of the Paris Agreement - the 2030 Climate and Energy Framework and the Energy Roadmap 2050); and the Sustainable Development Goals (2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, plus potential involvement in the multi-stakeholder platform for the implementation of the SDGs in the EU).
With our EnablingRights campaign, we are also exploring the potential of ICT in supporting the work of human rights defenders, and calling for further collaboration to advance the adoption of technology for human rights
We are participating in the European Green Digital Coalition and have prepare a report, funded by DG CONNECT, and in cooperation with other major industry associations such as ETNO, Digitaleurope, GSMA, and the European DIGITAL SME Alliance to contribute to the establishment of a science-based framework for the assessment of the net environmental impact of the ICT sector and set of digital solutions and use cases.Address
Head Office
c/o Scotlland HouseRond-Point Robert Schuman 6
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUMEU Office
c/o Scotlland HouseRond-Point Robert Schuman 6
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
GeSI is a member of the CTCN, the Climate Technology Centre and Network of the UN Environment Program; the World Resources Forum Association (WRFA); and the European Internet Forum (EIF); Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI).
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
500,000€ - 599,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant CNECT/2021/OP/0005 599,000€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant CNECT/2021/OP/0005 419,300€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
500,000€ - 599,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
GeSI is a member of the European Internet Forum (EIF).Communication activities
In 2021 GeSI, ETNO, Digital Europe, European Digital SME Alliance, was awarded the tender for the “European Parliament Pilot project-European Green Digital Coalition” which aims to contribute to the establishment of science-based framework for the assessment of the net environmental impact of ICT sector and a set of digital solutions and use cases. The final report was submitted the DG CNECT in March 2024.
Since 2016 GeSI has co-organized/was featured in a number of events in Brussels on the themes of: digital for sustainable development (SMARTer2030 Europe launch, with ETNO); the role of ICT in the transition to a low-carbon economy (EIF event at the European Parliament); the enabling potential of ICT for human rights and the GeSI report #EnablingRights).
In addition, GeSI is the official partner for digital and the ICT of the G-STIC conference series, held yearly in Brussels.
In the past GeSI has also held thematic sessions under the umbrella of the Green Week, and was a partner of the European ICT for Energy Efficiency (ICT4EE) Forum together with DigitalEurope and TechAmerica Europe.Other activities
Because it was originally founded at the initiative of the United National Environment Programme (UNEP), most of GeSI's interactions with policy-makers so far have been focused at global level.
Following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the overall framework for GeSI action, the strategic leadership of the organization has decided to take better advantage of our location in Brussels and engagement with EU actors including the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) which sits on our Board, and the European Internet Forum of which we are a member.
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 07 Sep 2021 Location video-call Subject discussion on a sustainable digital transition Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Daniel Mes (Cabinet member)