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)
- Biodiversity Finance
- Environment, Society and Governance (ESG)
- Green Innovation Finance
Balancing economy and health: But, if SARS is an indicator, Coronavirus (Covid-19) will have little effect of Chinese BRI investment and trade
Can the Belt and Road Initiative become greener through green finance?
IIGF Opinion in Caixin News: Will 2020 be the year China takes the lead on sustainability
Integrating Climate Change and Biodiversity Ambitions in Chinese Global Engagements such as the Belt and Road Initiative
Renewable energy cooperation and financing between China and Iran
Financing Green Urban Transport in the Belt and Road Initiative
Four Axioms of Leadership for Biodiversity Conservation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Green investments for biodiversity conservation in the Belt and Road Initiative
A growing toolbox of sustainable finance instruments
Kenya’s Lamu Coal Fired Power Plant – Lessons learnt for Green Development and Investments in the BRI
Infrastructure Investment Schemes in Asia in Addition to the BRI
The Potential of MDBs in Greening the Belt and Road Initiative – Executive Summary
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.