The year 2022 saw much action in development finance. As we predicted in our last year’s outlook, development finance has become more strategic with financiers picking allies and partners to the disadvantage of global coordination.While all development finance initiatives promise to uphold multilateralism and while they all borrow language from UN…
This article was originally published in The World Financial Review. The green transition of energy, transport, industry, urbanisation and agriculture requires a massive acceleration of global green investments across the world to meet the Paris agreement and reverse the loss of biodiversity. Yet so far, green finance lacks harmonised definitions…
On 12th of March, the IIGF Green BRI Center was invited to participate in a workshop hosted by John McKinnon concerning biodiversity governance in China. The workshop explored ideas to address issues of improving engagement between China and international initiatives. The workshop was opened by Ma Keping, who highlighted the…
On September 22, 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China aims to peak CO2 emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060 during the UN General Assembly. EU-China-summit-2020 (Pic: European Council) One important partner for China to reach its ambitions is the European Union (EU). On September 14,…
On October 16, 2020, the China Center for International Economic Exchanges CCIEE (中国国际经济交流中心) and the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Beijing organized a high-level online workshop on EU-China cooperation on climate change. Both China and the EU continue being committed to the Paris Climate Agreement and both acknowledge their responsibilities…
Following the publication of the study on green urban transport finance in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) (you can download and read the full study here), the European Union project EC-Link published the webinar by IIGF Director Dr. Christoph Nedopil Wang. In the webinar, Christoph presents the analysis of…
The importance of relations between green finance and stimulus packages in concept and historically Green finance policies and economic stimulus packages overlap at a number of levels. In an era where the global community faces both the immediate economic consequences of Covid-19 as well as the urgent need to transition…
The European Union-funded project EC-Link just published three new reports on green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) development: Belt and Road Initiative & Sustainable Urbanization Belt and Road Initiative & Sustainable Urban Transport Belt and Road Initiative & Industry 4.0 IIGF Director Christoph NEDOPIL WANG was the author of the BRI report on…
Summary – from climate to biodiversity in the BRI and beyond In the midst of increasing global awareness of environmental and sustainability problems, two interconnected issues are high on the agenda for 2020: climate change and biodiversity. This is in particular true for China who is both under pressure to…
In essence, the SDGs can only be met if they are an integral part of the development paths of countries under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). As the original 65 countries under the BRI collectively account for over 30% of global GDP, 62% of population, and 75% of known…