Gallagher in Diálogo Chino: NDB Renewable Energy Projects
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, discussed the inventiveness of the New Development Bank (NDB) with renewable energy projects in a recent interview.
Gallagher was quoted in an April 22, 2016 article on Diálogo Chino entitled “First BRICS Bank Loans Spark Debate Over Environmental Protection.”
From the text of the article:
Kevin Gallagher of Boston University’s Global Economic Governance Initiative says that by coming out of the gate with four green projects partly financed by green bonds, the NDB has demonstrated real innovativeness.
“If the NDB can also devise state-of-the art safeguards that enhance environmental sustainability and social inclusion without dragging down the project cycle it could become a truly new model for multilateral development banking,” Gallagher says.
Kevin Gallagher is the co-chair of the Task Force on Regulating Capital Flows and has served as an advisor to the Department of State and the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States, as well as to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Gallagher has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico; Tsinghua University in China, and the Center for State and Society in Argentina.