

Today’s episode discusses the important topic of green finance in China, especially as it relates to China’s investments abroad. The episode’s guest, Christoph Nedopil Wang, is Associate Professor and Director of the Green Finance and Development Center, Fudan University. Christoph also previously worked in Beijing at the International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF), as well as at GIZ. He joined the podcast previously to discuss the Green BRI, back in December 2020.
We specifically discuss the recent publication of an article in the Asia Pacific Policy Studies journal, which Christoph wrote together with Mathias Lund-Larson, Mengdi Yue, and Yao Wang: “Prospects of the Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF) to catalyze infrastructure financing.”
Other topics we discuss are:
- whether the traffic light system for evaluating BRI project impacts on the environment has had any impact,
- why China decided to ban financing for new coal plants overseas,
- whether the recent policy to make BRI projects apply international ESG standards is having an effect,
- and whether the MCDF is really resulting in actual benefits in terms of project preparation.


Environment China is a bilingual podcast featuring conversations with advocates, entrepreneurs, and experts working in the sustainability field in China for both Chinese and international audiences. So far we have released 111 episodes already. You can listen to them on Environment China's official website, BEN's WeChat Account, or Google/Apple/Spotify Podcast.
「环境中国」是北京能源网络2017年成立的中英双语播客栏目,至今已发布111集。在每一期节目中,我们将邀请到中外环保领域的倡导人士、创新创业者以及行业专家与大家分享他们的独到见解、创新策略和解决方案。您可在环境中国官网,BEN公众号,和谷歌/苹果/Spotify播客收听到我们的节目。
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