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.
The European Union-funded project EC-Link just published three new reports on green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) development: Belt and Road Initiative & Sustainable Urbanization Belt and Road Initiative & Sustainable Urban Transport Belt and Road Initiative & Industry 4.0 IIGF Director Christoph NEDOPIL WANG was the author of the BRI report on…
Sustainable transport is a key pillar of green development in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Accordingly, the European Union-funded project EC-Link just published a report on Belt and Road Initiative & Sustainable Urban Transport along two other papers on Belt and Road Initiative & Sustainable Urbanization and Belt and Road…
On Friday, March 27, 2020, the Belt and Road Initiative Green Coalition (BRIGC) under the guidance of the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) organized an online-meeting to discuss the first version of the “Green Light System” (Chinese: 交通灯) for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The following article…
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,…
The Belt and Road Initiative International Green Development Coalition (BRIGC) was established after the second Belt and Road Forum in April 2019. The BRIGC is supervised by the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) with its own secretariat. The main goal of the BRIGC is “to promote international consensus,…
On March 27, 2020, the First Consultation Meeting of Joint Research on “Green Development Guidance for BRI Projects” (the “Green Light” System) was held via videoconference. The BRI “Green Light System” aims to explore the formulation of guidelines on the assessment and classification of BRI projects and provide guidance for…
The Director of the Green BRI Center, Dr. Christoph Nedopil Wang, was invited to give a presentation on the Belt and Road Initiative and its influence of sustainable and green development in the African context at GITEX – the largest technology conference in Dubai – in October 2019. Here is…
The good news is that the number of newly infected cases of the new coronavirus 2019-nCov has been stabilizing. However, the fear of economic fallouts from the coronavirus 2019-nCov have become ever louder. In a previous piece, we argued that if the SARS outbreak of 2003 is used as a…
For the Chinese version, click here – 中文的文章在这儿。 Since the beginning of 2020, China is engaging in a delicate balancing act: on the one hand, it is fighting the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) by limiting movement of people (e.g. suspension of many intercity bus services), minimizing congregations of people…
The original interview with Prof. Yao Wang in Chinese can be found here. Translation by Yiwei Qi. What contribution will the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) make to tackling climate change and realizing global green and sustainable development? What impacts and opportunities will green and low-carbon development path bring to…