Belt and Road Initiative and Climate Change-Report Released 09/02/019

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“Ethical Markets highly recommends this full report “Decarbonizing the Belt and Road“ co-authored by Simon Zadek and Prof. Ma Jun, Tsinghua University and co-sponsored by Vivid economics and the Climateworks Foundation.

~Hazel Henderson, Editor”

Decarbonizing the Belt and Road

Five-point green finance roadmap proposed for decarbonizing countries involved in China’s Belt & Road Initiative, as report shows investment decisions made now could make or break Paris Agreement targets

Decarbonizing the Belt and Road: A Green Finance Roadmap is the first quantitative study of potential carbon scenarios across the 126 countries involved in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, currently accounting for almost a quarter of the global GDP. It models three potential carbon emissions scenarios – worst in class, business as usual, and best in class – for 17 key BRI countries and provides the following five-point green finance roadmap.

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