The Center for Global Environmental Policy (CGEP) was established in 2005. It is a Research Institute subordinated to Beijing Normal University. The center relies upon the School of Environment for its development. It devotes itself to solving global environmental issues such as climate change mitigation, the impact of international trade on the environment, and biodiversity conservation. It also attempts to learn from the international experience of environmental policy and management strategy making. and to apply environmental economic theory to policy formulation and management practice in China, in order to find ways to make China greener.

The research fields of CGEP including co-control of GHGs and local air pollutants, international trade and environmental issues, the institutional framework of biodiversity conservation, building of low carbon cities, environmental damage valuation within environmental risks and emergency management, ecological compensation, eco-environmental assessment and planning et al.

With the support of School of Environment, in the past few years the CGEP has carried out and completed many research projects entrusted to it by the European Union (EU), APEC, the Ministry of Ecology and Environmental (MEE), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC),  the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Energy Foundation (EF), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)/Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA), the WWF, the WRI, local authorities and enterprises. The Center has had dozens of research and consultancy reports and more than a hundred academic articles published, and it has received widespread recognition from the government and academia.