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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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) ...
The 15th Conference of the UN Biological Diversity in Kunming, China: The Establishment of the Kunming Declaration and the Role for Financial Institutions

Part I of the COP-15 UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took place in Kunming, Yunnan Provi...
Podcast: The Paulson Institute’s Green Team speaks to Christoph Nedopil

On November 2, Dr. Christoph Nedopil Wang, Director of the Green Finance & Development Center wa...
Panel Summary: Biodiversity Finance – The Frontier of Green Finance at the 2021 Annual Conference of the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI)

On September 1st 2021, the Green Finance & Development Center at FISF Fudan University Shanghai,...
Interpretation: “Opinions on further Strengthening the Protection of Biodiversity” and its impact on green finance, sustainable development, and the Belt and Road Imitative (BRI)

On October 19, 2021, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China tog...