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Ruichen Hong

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Ruichen Hong is a research assistant at the International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF). He received a Master of Accounting from the University of Glasgow,  UK, and is in the process of receiving the certification by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) . He is a main author of the 2018 China Climate Financing Report and Establishing China’s Green Financial System: Progress Report 2018. His research areas are climate finance, carbon finance, environment accounting and carbon accounting.

Many countries of the Belt and Road Initiative are among the world’s major energy producing and consuming countries. At the same time, they are mostly developing countries, with the requirement to continue expanding its energy markets. As many of China’s investment and financing projects along Silk Road have climate effects,…

Editorial Note: In many countries, human activities are highly intensive, whereas ecological environment is relatively weak and hardly adaptable to climate changes. Climate finance is therefore of great urgency to improve climate conditions and develop sustainable economy. In September and October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed two economic development…