YALE UNIVERSITY

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which aspires to improve global connectivity through infrastructure investments, is now in its sixth year. Its potential and real impacts on the global environment are attracting steadily more scrutiny: if BRI countries' development continues as planned while all other countries adhere to a 2-degree scenario, these countries' greenhouse gas emissions could account for two-thirds of global emissions by 2050. Deforestation, biodiversity and ecosystem risks from BRI investments - as well as their implications for the economic and social welfare of local communities - have also been increasingly documented... China's second Belt and Road Forum held in April 2019 in Beijing saw the adoption of a variety of new commitments to an "open, green and clean" BRI to address such concerns. The Belt and Road Initiative International Green Development Coalition (BRIGC) housed at UN Environment aims to ensure the BRI supports the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable..

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