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
Workshop on ESG risk management in Chinese overseas projects
China’s “Two Sessions” 2022 – what it means for economy, climate, biodiversity, green finance and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Brief: China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report 2021
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)
Interpretation of the 2022 “Guidelines for Ecological Environmental Protection of Foreign Investment Cooperation and Construction Projects”
Green Finance Year 2021 Review and a 2022 Green Finance Outlook
New Guidance for Green Development for BRI Projects – second phase report to scale up green finance and green development
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)
Mengdi Yue is a visiting researcher at the Green Finance & Development Center and previously was a researcher at the Green BRI Center at IIGF. She holds a Master in International Relations from School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and has worked with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), European Union Chamber of Commerce in China and the China-ASEAN Environmental Cooperation of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. She is fascinated by green energy finance in China and the Belt and Road Initiative and data analysis.
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.