- Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
- Biodiversity Finance
- Climate Finance
Brief: Coal phase-out in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): an analysis of Chinese-backed coal power from 2014-2020
Panel Discussion: Funding the Post-2020 Global Diversity Framework – The Role of Resources Mobilisation in Nature Restoration
Green Recovery in BRI Countries
News: International Roundtable on the Green Development Guidance for BRI Projects
Guest Post: How Protest is Posing a Growing Threat to the BRI
Guest Post: Preventing illegal trade in snow leopards: Three schemes to incorporate as part of the BRI investments
Guest Post: Ready for some action? The conservation capacity of Kyrgyzstan and China
China’s coal investments phase-out in BRI countries – Bangladesh case
Guest Post: Energizing Kazakhstan: Renewable Energy Opportunities
Guest Post: The Central Asian Way: The road ahead for environmental and social sustainability in the BRI
Policy Report Launch: IIGF Green BRI Center and Oxford University Silk Road Society present “The Central Asian Way, Social and environmental sustainability in the BRI”.
China’s 14th five-year plan’s climate ambitions: Can green finance help for a much-required overachievement of the targets?
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.