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ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
Volume 32, Issue 7, Pages 1109-1116Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2023.2251372
Keywords
China; Belt and Road Initiative; environmental governance; institutions; overseas development finance; sustainable development
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On the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this symposium aims to enhance understanding of China's environmental governance in its overseas engagements. Despite China's significant investments worldwide, the attention from environmental politics scholars has been insufficient. Moreover, while China is increasingly proactive in promoting green development, there is limited research on relevant governance initiatives. Contributors to the symposium provide rigorous analysis on institutional interactions and new governance initiatives aiming to green the BRI.
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 engagement. While China's fast-growing investments across the world have large implications for global and local environmental politics, this phenomenon has so far received insufficient attention of students of environmental politics. Moreover, China has become increasingly proactive in promoting green development in the BRI, but little research has assessed relevant governance initiatives. Recognising this research gap, contributors to the symposium provide rigorous analysis on institutional interactions involving China and host country actors as well as forces driving new governance initiatives aiming to green the BRI. Building on the insights drawn from the symposium, we propose a research agenda to focus on the effects of China-US geopolitical rivalry, institutional evolution, and agency of host countries to understand the evolving system governing environmental impacts of China's overseas engagement.
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