By Rebecca Ray As one of the world’s richest homes for biodiversity and one of the top recipients of Chinese finance and investment, Indonesia is in a crucial position for managing the economic, social and environmental benefits and risks of participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In a new working paper, researchers from […]
By Liaoguo Chen With the support of the Chinese government, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) was established in 1992. As a high-level international advisory body, CCICED focuses on core issues of environment and development and has contributed to championing sustainable development in China. CCICED has also worked to build […]
To meet the Paris Agreement and avoid catastrophic climate change, all coal-fired power generation should be phased out by 2040. During this transition, discussions must incorporate the need for a just transition that meets the local energy and economic needs of rapidly industrializing countries, especially in South and Southeast Asia. In a new policy brief, […]
By Cecilia Springer and Rebecca Ray The pressing need for low-carbon energy transitions globally – and particularly in developing countries, which face significant financial and technical obstacles to energy transition goals– is now a global consensus. As a global network to support investment, finance and trade, with a particular focus on infrastructure development, China’s Belt […]
By 2050, the share of global carbon emissions of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) participating countries is expected to be as high as 76 percent. Among the 149 countries and 32 international organizations signed on to the BRI, more than half of the countries included carbon neutrality in their planning and proposed specific timelines for […]
By Bridgette Lang The Spring 2022 Global China Research Colloquium invited leading scholars to virtually present their latest research on topics spanning China’s application of industrial policy, debt-for-nature swaps with Ecuador, simulating the impacts of China’s clean energy transition abroad and mapping the marine risks of Chinese overseas development finance. Zhu Xian started the year […]
By Kate Chi On Wednesday, May 18, Blake Alexander Simmons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University, joined the Spring 2022 Global China Research Colloquium to discuss forthcoming research on China’s overseas development finance portfolio and the risks posed to marine habitats, biodiversity and coastal communities. […]
On Monday, March 28, 2022, China’s National Development and Reform Commission issued new guidelines on greening the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the ambitious multi-billion-dollar international push to better connect China to the rest of the world through trade and infrastructure. Through this venture, China is providing over 100 countries with funding they have long […]
By Zara C. Albright In 2021, for the second year in a row, China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) agreed to no new official financing commitments from the China Development Bank (CDB) or the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM). Rather, the China-Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Bulletin, 2022 edition, published by the […]
In 2021, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continued to face challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic strains. After a 7 percent contraction in 2020, the region’s GDP growth rebounded to 6.2 percent in 2021, according to a recent projection from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. This was […]