[PDF] Improving And Greening The Belt And Road Initiative eBook

Author : Leo Kempe
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3346999769

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Submitted Assignment from the year 2022 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Economic Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, language: English, abstract: This short paper looks at the linkage of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) brought forward by the People's Republic of China in 2015. It is an endeavor to expand the country's economic reach and to export goods in wider areas of the world. Hence, it can be seen as a tool to achieve a dominating role in the economic realm, which includes gaining ground particularly in raw-material and technological sectors abroad. Because of several critical remarks by the world community, the PRC has pledged to make the BRi a "greener" project, meaning to invest more in sustainable procedures - such as emission reduction. This, China stresses, should be done to create communities with a shared interest and a common responsibility, automatically evoking thoughts about lowering trade barriers and customs regulations, building strong financial and political institutions, as well as focusing on ecological technologies. Nevertheless, there are still negative effects such as substantial wealth gaps, gender inequalities, and limited economic development capacity along with quite a strong discrepancy between plans and deeds.

Author : Fanny M. Cheung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000296350

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Can China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promote sustainable development, alongside its primary aims of increasing commercial connectivity with China’s partners? In discussions of the BRI the focus has tended to be on the implications for infrastructure construction, connectivity, and economic diplomacy. Rather less attention has been paid to its potential impact on sustainability. The initiative has not only set principles to prevent climate change and promote sustainable development, but also pledged to align with the UN’s environmental objectives. The contributors to this volume describe and evaluate the consequent policy coordination in the areas of green finance, green energy, and sustainable development in the Belt and Road regions. They examine both the challenges and opportunities of these projects, and the role that Hong Kong can play in supporting their assessment, finance, and implementation. With contributions from authors based in mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia, Qatar, the UK, and the US – with experience in corporate social responsibility, international finance, environmental policy, and international relations – this book presents a thorough and rigorous analysis of the green side of the BRI. A valuable resource for scholars of the BRI and its many implications for China, its partners, and the development of sustainable infrastructure.

Author : Ferguson, R. J.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788977475

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This timely book offers a critical account of key governance challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Illustrating China’s efforts to expand its idea of a sustainable eco-civilization, thereby ‘greening’ the BRI, it explores the disputes that have emerged from this process and subsequent complications resulting from geopolitical competition.

Author : Fanny M Cheung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2020-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003021667

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"Can China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promote sustainable development, alongside its primary aims of increasing commercial connectivity with China's partners? In discussions of the BRI the focus has tended to be on the implications for infrastructure construction, connectivity and economic diplomacy. Rather less attention has been paid to its potential impact on sustainability. The initiative has not only set principles to prevent climate change and promote sustainable development, but also pledged to align with the UN's environmental objectives. The contributors to this volume describe and evaluate the consequent policy coordination in the areas of green finance, green energy and sustainable development in the Belt and Road regions. They examine both the challenges and opportunities of these projects, and the role that Hong Kong can play in supporting their assessment, finance and implementation. With contributions from authors based in mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, Qatar, the UK and the US - with experience in corporate social responsibility, international finance, environmental policy and international relations - this book presents a thorough and rigorous analysis of the green side of the BRI. A valuable resource for scholars of the BRI and its many implications for China, its partners and the development of sustainable infrastructure"--

Author : CCICED.
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : 9811647992

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This open access book is based on the research outputs of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) in 2020. It covers major topics of Chinese and international attention regarding green development, such as climate, biodiversity, ocean, BRI, urbanization, sustainable production and consumption, technology, finance, value chain, and so on. It also looks at the progress of China's environmental and development policies,and the impacts from CCICED. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing insight for policy makers in environmental issues.

Author : Jennifer Hillman
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category :
ISBN : 9780876098004

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China's massive, globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) seeks to build everything from railways, ports, and power plants to telecommunications infrastructure and fiber-optic cables. Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature foreign policy endeavor, BRI has the potential to meet developing countries' needs and spur economic growth, but its implementation creates risks that outweigh its benefits. Unless the United States offers an effective alternative, China could reorient global trade networks, set technical standards that would disadvantage non-Chinese companies, lock countries into carbon-intensive power generation, increase its political influence over countries, and acquire power projection capabilities for its military. The COVID-19 pandemic has made a U.S. response more urgent as the global economic contraction has accelerated the reckoning with BRI-related debt. China's Belt and Road: Implications for the United States proposes that the United States respond to BRI by putting forward an affirmative agenda of its own, drawing on its strengths and coordinating with allies and partners to promote sustainable, secure, and green development.

Author : R. J. Ferguson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2021-12-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781788977463

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This timely book offers a critical account of key governance challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Illustrating China's efforts to expand its idea of a sustainable eco-civilization, thereby 'greening' the BRI, it explores the disputes that have emerged from this process and subsequent complications resulting from geopolitical competition. R. James Ferguson presents a critical analysis of China's Green BRI, discussing the environmental impact of BRI corridors and its overall importance in harmonising the twin policy agendas of human development and environmental preservation. The author evaluates security and geopolitical challenges for the BRI in the context of China's new globalism and emerging asymmetric co-governance. Demonstrating the need for improved governance of the BRI for a sustainability transition in global affairs, Ferguson suggests a range of strategies to compete with, complement or transform the BRI into a more multilaterized Green BRI. This cutting-edge book is crucial reading for academics and researchers in political science and international relations focusing on contemporary Chinese governance and the significance of sustainable development for the BRI. Its unique practical insights and policy recommendations will also benefit policy advisors and environmental organizations that are engaging with green governance issues.

Author : BRI International Green Development
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9811631883

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This is an Open Access book. In accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it showcases 17 projects under the framework of Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). These projects cover ninefields, namely, biodiversity and ecosystem, clean energy, clean water, sustainable transportation, solid waste treatment, sustainable consumption and production, green buildings, sustainable foodproduction and corporate social responsibility. Aiming at achieving green development, these projects, in their implementation, adhere to the concept of ecological civilization, combine China’s strict environmental protection systems and international standards, and take various measures of environmental protection based on the conditions of the local environment. These measures include joint efforts with local governments, businesses and communities, optimizating of design and construction plans, strict controling over different types of pollutants, and in situ conservation of species and ecosystems.The experience and practice of these 13 projects set an example for the latecomers.

Author : Alex M. Lechner
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9814881430

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is expected to be the largest infrastructure development scheme of the twenty-first century. There is escalating concern over BRI’s potential environmental impacts in Southeast Asia, a global biodiversity hotspot and a focus area of BRI development. Case studies of Indonesia, Myanmar, Lao PDR and Malaysia show that the success of BRI in bringing about sustainable growth and opportunities depends on the Chinese government and financiers, as well as the agencies and governments involved when BRI investments take place. The adoption of best environmental practices is critical in ensuring that growth is sustainable and that bad environmental practices are not locked in for decades to come.

Author : Alessia Amighini (a cura di)
Publisher : Edizioni Epoké
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8899647631

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Officially announced by Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has since become the centrepiece of China’s economic diplomacy. It is a commitment to ease bottlenecks to Eurasian trade by improving and building networks of connectivity across Central and Western Asia, where the BRI aims to act as a bond for the projects of regional cooperation and integration already in progress in Southern Asia. But it also reaches out to the Middle East as well as East and North Africa, a truly strategic area where the Belt joins the Road. Europe, the end-point of the New Silk Roads, both by land and by sea, is the ultimate geographic destination and political partner in the BRI. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the BRI, its logic, rationale and implications for international economic and political relations.