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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...
China Third-Party Market Cooperation for Infrastructure Projects: Financing Mechanism Handbook

In September 2021, a new project finance handbook was launched with funding by the British Foreign, ...
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the BRI – How to Enhance Climate Goal

Introduction of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) In order to tackle climate change, all me...
China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report H1 2021

Key findings BRI finance and investments continued to drop in the first half of 2021 to US$19.3...
Interpretation of the “Green Development Guidelines for Foreign Investment and Cooperation”

On July 16, 2021, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE...
Potential Harmonization of Emission Trading Systems (ETS): China and Southeast Asia

The emissions trading system (ETSs) is currently one of the market-oriented tools adopted globally t...
News: China joins UNDP BIOFIN effort – workshop on Biodiversity finance progress.

On June 17th, the Biodiversity Finance Initiative Project (UNDP BIOFIN), together with expert from i...
Analysis and Implications of the Initiative for Belt and Road Partnership on Green Development in comparison to the Build Back Better World B3W

On June 23, 2021, during a virtual conference, political leaders of 29 partner countries of the Belt...
Brief: Coal phase-out in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): an analysis of Chinese-backed coal power from 2014-2020

Highlights Between 2014 and 2020, about USD160 billion of Chinese-backed coal-fired power plants wer...
Panel Discussion: Funding the Post-2020 Global Diversity Framework – The Role of Resources Mobilisation in Nature Restoration

On June 8, UK Mission to the European Union hosted a panel discussion on mobilizing finance and reso...
Green Recovery in BRI Countries

1. Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has brought extreme stress to the global economy. Govern...