The Green Finance & Development Center and its team regularly develop reports, studies, opinions and other publications on green finance, green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), sustainable development, ESG, biodiversity finance, climate finance, green innovation finance and related topics. You can explore all our publications here.
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Policy Brief: The Potential for Early Coal Plant Retirement

In a new policy brief, Christoph Nedopil, Cecilia Springer, Ulrich Volz and Mengdi Yue summarize a w...
Interpretation: Opinions on the Joint Implementation of Green Development in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by four Ministries

This article was originally published by the China Council for International Cooperation on Environm...
Event: Panel on the Impact of China’s Sustainable Finance on Asia’s Financial Hubs

On March 31st, 2022, the Eco-Business with strategic support from Refinitiv, an LSEG business, ...
Brief: Global Practices for Financing of Early Coal Retirement for Accelerated Green Energy Transition

In our new brief written by Christoph Nedopil, Mengdi Yue, and Ulrich Volz and published together wi...
Brief: China’s Role in Public External Debt in DSSI Countries and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2020

*updated on April 26, 2022 to correct an error of overstating China’s debt suspension in 2020....
Workshop on ESG risk management in Chinese overseas projects

Evaluating, understanding and managing environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks is an import...
China’s “Two Sessions” 2022 – what it means for economy, climate, biodiversity, green finance and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

From March 4 to March 11, 2022, the “Two Sessions” were held in Beijing. The Two Session...
Brief: China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report 2021

Key findings BRI finance and investments stabilized in 2021 at US$ 59.5 billion (compared ...
NEWS: New Report on alignment and implementation of the BRIGC Green Development Guidance and the Green Investment Principles (GIP) for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Post-pandemic recovery and low-carbon transition have become top priorities for BRI countries. Mobil...
Interpretation of the 2022 “Guidelines for Ecological Environmental Protection of Foreign Investment Cooperation and Construction Projects”

On January 6, 2022, China’s Ministry of Environment and Ecology (MEE) together with the Ministry o...
Green Finance Year 2021 Review and a 2022 Green Finance Outlook

Another turbulent and complex year is coming to end driven by economic recovery (discussions), more ...
New Guidance for Green Development for BRI Projects – second phase report to scale up green finance and green development

On October 26, 2021, the Belt and Road Initiative International Green Development Coalition (BRIGC) ...