The Green Council has been accredited by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Accreditation offers several advantages for NGOs including participation in meetings of global groups, interaction with representatives of governments, and a platform to influence policy formulation. The Green Council (GC) is a non-profit, non-partisan environmental association of Hong Kong A group of individuals from different sectors of industry and academics shared the vision to help build Hong Kong into a world-class green city for the future. They formed the Green Council in May 2000 with the aim of encouraging the industrial and commercial sectors to include environmental protection in their production and management processes. The Green Council (GC) was registered as a non-profit making organisation in December 2000.