Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal

MR Davidson, X Gao, J Busby, C Shearer… - Environmental …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The politics of international finance for coal power plants have intensified since the 2015
Paris climate agreement was negotiated. Over the past few years, Japan and South Korea …

[HTML][HTML] No more coal abroad! Unpacking the drivers of China's green shift in overseas energy finance

Y Wang, C Liu, Y Sun - Energy Research & Social Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, China's development finance for coal-fired power plants has been
seen as a major barrier to clean energy transition in developing countries. In September …

[HTML][HTML] China's nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America

AL Zhu, N Weins, J Lu, T Harlan, J Qian… - Global Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
China increasingly engages in environmental diplomacy through South-South cooperation
across the developing world. Since 2019, the rise of the discourse of Nature-based …

Environmental governance of China's belt and road initiative

Y Sun, JI Lewis, J Urpelainen - Environmental Politics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
On the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), we present this special
symposium to advance knowledge on environmental governance of China's overseas …

Can the BRI Deliver High-Quality Development? A Multi-Actor Analysis of China's Overseas Economic Zones

Z Wu, M Ye - Journal of Contemporary China, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has evolved from its ambitious beginning into
a framework focused on high-quality development (HQD), emphasizing environmental …

Meeting in the Middle? Multilateral Development Finance, China, and Norm Harmonization

S Park - Asia Policy, 2023 - muse.jhu.edu
International norms are strong when they are taken for granted and followed automatically. 1
Through contestation, norms may erode over time as challengers focus on how to …

China's role in sovereign debt restructuring

T Nishizawa - China International Strategy Review, 2024 - Springer
As the world's largest bilateral lender to low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), China
faces challenges dealing with some sovereign borrowers in debt distress under the Belt and …

Greening China's Belt and Road Initiative in Malaysia

TS Yean - Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 2024 - JSTOR
China announced a shift towards green infrastructure, green investment and green financing
at the 2019 Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in response to …