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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The 15th Conference of the UN Biological Diversity in Kunming, China: The Establishment of the Kunming Declaration and the Role for Financial Institutions
Podcast: The Paulson Institute’s Green Team speaks to Christoph Nedopil
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)
Interpretation: “Opinions on further Strengthening the Protection of Biodiversity” and its impact on green finance, sustainable development, and the Belt and Road Imitative (BRI)
China Third-Party Market Cooperation for Infrastructure Projects: Financing Mechanism Handbook
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the BRI – How to Enhance Climate Goal
China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report H1 2021
Interpretation of the “Green Development Guidelines for Foreign Investment and Cooperation”
Potential Harmonization of Emission Trading Systems (ETS): China and Southeast Asia
News: China joins UNDP BIOFIN effort – workshop on Biodiversity finance progress.
Analysis and Implications of the Initiative for Belt and Road Partnership on Green Development in comparison to the Build Back Better World B3W
Brief: Coal phase-out in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): an analysis of Chinese-backed coal power from 2014-2020
Jodelle Lai
Jodelle Lai is a non-resident researcher at the Green Finance & Development Center.
Dr. Christoph NEDOPIL WANG is the Founding Director of the Green Finance & Development Center and an Associate Professor at the Fanhai International School of Finance (FISF) at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
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.