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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- Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
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Green Finance Trends in China (2): Green Finance Instruments
Green Finance trends in China (1): China’s Green Finance Policy Landscape
China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report 2022
New report: Debt-for-nature swap – a commissioned report for China’s Green Finance Committee
New Issue Brief: Accelerated Retirement of China’s Overseas Coal-Fired Power Plants Can Unlock Massive Energy Transition Potentials for South and Southeast Asia
Report for G20 Climate and Sustainability working group: Innovative finance towards a low-carbon and climate-resilient future
Brief: China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report H1 2022
Interpretation: New CBIRC “Green Finance Guidelines for the Banking and Insurance Industry”
Policy Brief: The Potential for Early Coal Plant Retirement
Interpretation: Opinions on the Joint Implementation of Green Development in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by four Ministries
Event: Panel on the Impact of China’s Sustainable Finance on Asia’s Financial Hubs
Brief: Global Practices for Financing of Early Coal Retirement for Accelerated Green Energy Transition
Dr. Christoph NEDOPIL WANG is the Founding Director of the Green Finance & Development Center and a Visiting Professor at the Fanhai International School of Finance (FISF) at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He is also the Director of the Griffith Asia Institute and a Professor at Griffith University.
Christoph is a member of the Belt and Road Initiative Green Coalition (BRIGC) of the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment. He has contributed to policies and provided research/consulting amongst others for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), the Ministry of Commerce, various private and multilateral finance institutions (e.g. ADB, IFC, as well as multilateral institutions (e.g. UNDP, UNESCAP) and international governments.
Christoph holds a master of engineering from the Technical University Berlin, a master of public administration from Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a PhD in Economics. He has extensive experience in finance, sustainability, innovation, and infrastructure, having worked for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for almost 10 years and being a Director for the Sino-German Sustainable Transport Project with the German Cooperation Agency GIZ in Beijing.
He has authored books, articles and reports, including UNDP's SDG Finance Taxonomy, IFC's “Navigating through Crises” and “Corporate Governance - Handbook for Board Directors”, and multiple academic papers on capital flows, sustainability and international development.
Ziying SONG is a researcher at the Green Finance & Development Center. She previously served as a Senior Analyst at CDP and a consultant at China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP) Consulting in Beijing, China. She has worked on cross-sectional projects in energy transition, climate change, and sustainable finance area.
Ziying graduated from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) with a master’s degree in Energy Economics and Management. She also had intern experience with GlobalFoundries, APEC, and South China Institute of Environmental Science of MEE. She is keen to have a deeper dive on research topics at GFDC and deems to develop a long-term career in this field.