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Greening BRI Governance in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Beyond

Date & Time

Wednesday
Feb. 22, 2023
9:00am – 10:30am ET

Location

Online Only

Overview

The Xi Jinping Administration has made ambitious commitments and investments to reign in domestic greenhouse gas emissions and under its Ecological Red Line initiative also passed new laws and standards to better protect China’s rivers, wetlands and forests. However, China has not yet mandated similarly strict climate and biodiversity governance on its investments along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).   

At this panel, speakers will unpack some of the opportunities and obstacles Chinese and BRI host governments, businesses and civil society groups face in greening Chinese overseas investments. Kicking off the session, Blake Berger (Asia Society Policy Institute) will undertake a deep dive into the importance of project due diligence and the issues surrounding their implementation in BRI projects, and will share with us a new digital toolkit for stakeholders in BRI host countries to use to promote mutually beneficial, equitable, inclusive, and environmentally and socially sustainable projects. Rebecca Ray (Boston University) will then compare how Indonesia and the Amazon Basin governments unnecessarily weakened environmental governance to attract more Chinese investments. Cecilia Springer(Boston University) will tackle the question of how and why China’s overseas energy projects are changing, providing case studies of coal plants in Pakistan and Kenya. Chuyu Liu (University of Amsterdam) will talk about the hurdles facing China’s renewable energy investment in Southeast Asia.

This meeting is part of the China Environment Forum's Vulnerable Deltas Initiative.

Speakers

Rebecca Ray

Rebecca Ray

Senior Academic Researcher, Boston University Pardee School for Global Studies    
Cecilia Han Springer image

Cecilia Han Springer

Assistant Director, Global China Initiative, Boston University's Global China Initiative
Chuyu Liu

Chuyu Liu

Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Blake Berger

Blake Berger

Associate Director, Asia Society Policy Institute

Hosted By

China Environment Forum

Since 1997, the China Environment Forum's mission has been to forge US-China cooperation on energy, environment, and sustainable development challenges. We play a unique nonpartisan role in creating multi-stakeholder dialogues around these issues.  Read more

Indo-Pacific Program

The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region.   Read more

Brazil Institute

The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—works to foster understanding of Brazil’s complex reality and to support more consequential relations between Brazilian and US institutions in all sectors. The Brazil Institute plays this role by producing independent research and programs that bridge the gap between scholarship and policy, and by serving as a crossroads for leading policymakers, scholars and private sector representatives who are committed to addressing Brazil’s challenges and opportunities.  Read more

Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more

Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition

The Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition works to shape conversations and inspire meaningful action to strengthen technology, trade, infrastructure, and energy as part of American economic and global leadership that benefits the nation and the world.  Read more

Environmental Change and Security Program

The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.  Read more

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