The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China’s overseas economic and political engagement strategy with a focus on infrastructure development, unimpeded trade, people-to-people connectivity, financial integration, and policy coordination.
China’s climate change projects in countries along the Belt and Road have made remarkable progress. In the first half of 2020, BRI energy-related investments were predominantly climate-friendly for the first time. However, compared with some international institutions, China’s development of climate investment and finance is still at an early stage.…
The European Union Project EC-Link published the new report by IIGF Director Christoph Nedopil, Ying Cui, Andreas Kress and Marie Kleeschulte on “Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) & Green Urban Finance”. In this article, we provide a short summary of the report. Download the Report About the report International cooperation…
On September 21, 2020, the aerospace giant Airbus announced concept designs for “ZEROe”, a zero-emission, hydrogen-powered airplane that would enter service by 2035. While it might be difficult to imagine traveling on a hydrogen-powered plane, hydrogen as a fuel is not new: liquid hydrogen has served as a rocket propellant…
After the 2014 climate agreement between President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama alongside the consequent ratification of the Paris Agreement, China sees itself as taking a leadership role in global climate action and governance. Against this background, China has utilized green finance as a major strategy in supporting a…
The first six months of 2020 BRI investments show highest share of renewable energy investment, amid a 50% decline in total BRI investments Overall BRI investment trends Download the full report here New data released by the American Enterprise Institute show that most countries of the Belt and Road Initiative…
1. The importance of relations between green finance and stimulus packages in concept and historically Green finance policies and economic stimulus packages overlap at a number of levels. In an era where the global community faces both the immediate economic consequences of Covid-19 as well as the urgent need to…
Following the publication of the study on green urban transport finance in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) (you can download and read the full study here), the European Union project EC-Link published the webinar by IIGF Director Dr. Christoph Nedopil Wang. In the webinar, Christoph presents the analysis of…
The importance of relations between green finance and stimulus packages in concept and historically Green finance policies and economic stimulus packages overlap at a number of levels. In an era where the global community faces both the immediate economic consequences of Covid-19 as well as the urgent need to transition…
On June 22, the International Energy Agency (IEA) with the support of the International Institute of Green Finance, CUFE (IIGF) launched the IEA World Energy Investment 2020 Report. Experts from IEA, the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA), the Energy Committee of China Investment Association, Goldwind Technology Co., Ltd., China…
The year 2020 has proven to be more turbulent than anyone could have expected, and it is only June. While in February we asked if 2020 would be the year of China’s global green leadership, hoping that the Covid-19 virus outbreak would be short-lived, by March we already we had to incorporate broader-than-expected fallout…