In order to achieve a 1.5°C warming scenario, many countries have announced their ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the next few decades. However, in addition to carbon dioxide, other key GHGs such as methane will require attention in order to achieve this goal. In the past 20 years, global methane emissions […]
By Christina Duran On Tuesday, November 8, 2022, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a webinar discussion on the diversification of Chinese overseas economic engagement for its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The webinar, as part of the Fall 2022 Global China Research Colloquium, featured Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses, Data Analyst and Database […]
By Christina Duran On Thursday, October, 27, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a webinar discussion and demonstration of the China’s Global Power (CGP) Database, 2022 update. First launched in 2020, the CGP Database tracks China’s overseas power plants financed through Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) and loans from China’s two state-owned […]
China’s ‘Going Out’ strategy and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched China to be the world’s largest source of cumulative bilateral official development finance. However, in recent years, overseas development finance from China’s policy banks has declined and China’s outward finance has diversified towards other channels. One emerging and under-studied area of China’s overseas economic […]
To achieve the targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement, global coal use needs to be cut by 30 to 70 percent by 2030. Action has been slow though, with some industrial countries placing coal phase-out high on their political agendas, while most low- and middle-income countries still regard coal as essential for economic growth. While […]
By Cecilia Han Springer On Wednesday, March 16, Ian Kieffer, Global China Fellow with the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Ian Sue Wing, Professor with the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, joined the Global China Research Colloquium to present initial results from their study on the potential impacts of […]
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 Cecilia Han Springer The 2022 update to the China’s Global Energy Finance (CGEF) Database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, recorded no new energy development finance commitments from China to foreign governments in 2021 through its two most active policy banks, the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of […]
By Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses On March 1, 2022, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center joined a webinar hosted by the Word Resources Institute (WRI) to launch the China Overseas Finance Inventory (COFI) Database. WRI created the database in collaboration with the GDP Center, the China Africa Research Initiative at the Johns Hopkins University […]
The 2022 update to the China’s Global Energy Finance Database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, recorded no new energy development finance commitments in 2021 from China to foreign governments through its two most active policy banks, the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM). This is the […]