In the first decade of the 21st century, China’s rapid urbanization and investment-led growth model brought skyrocketing demand for raw commodities and an ensuing investment wave in Amazon basin countries. In the wake of this “China boom,” national governments in Amazon basin countries enacted a series of social and environmental protections, many of which were […]
By Rebecca Ray On Tuesday, September 13, Dr. Justin Yifu Lin, Director of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, joined the Fall 2022 Global China Research Colloquium to discuss the future of industrialization in a post-pandemic world. Industrialization has been a dominant goal for developing nations for much of the last century. […]
In the next few years, demand for seafood is expected to grow exponentially and the gap between local demand and local production is expected to more than double within the next decade. As the world’s largest home of aquaculture (raising aquatic plants and animals for food), China has been responsible for over half of global […]
The Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group of Finance Ministers, a dedicated initiative of 55 climate vulnerable economies, is at the epicenter of looming debt and climate crises which are threatening their ability to build resilient and low-carbon economies. When scarce public finances are mostly spent on debt service rather than on investments to build a more resilient […]
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 […]
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 Cecilia Springer and Rebecca Ray Environmental cooperation has been a key bedrock of successful collaboration between China and Western countries, starting with the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden 50 years ago. Cooperation, not isolation, brought China to the table for the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015, […]
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 […]