Risks to Global Biodiversity and Indigenous Lands from China’s Overseas Development Finance (中文字幕)

In a sweeping, half-trillion-dollar push for roads, ports and other infrastructure, China’s development finance is boosting economic growth around the world.
But large infrastructure projects can bring serious impacts for nature and people.
In a September 2021 article published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, our research team assessed risks to biodiversity and Indigenous lands from Chinese finance worldwide.
We found 63 percent of Chinese projects overlap with high-biodiversity areas or Indigenous lands. These risks are significantly higher than World Bank projects.
But this varies dramatically by country: in some countries, 100 percent of Chinese projects overlap with high biodiversity areas, or up to 70 percent with Indigenous lands. In other countries, none of them do.
So, Chinese finance doesn’t have to be risky. And China is working to improve these outcomes, with new overseas investment guidelines.
By managing risks together, policymakers in China and abroad can harness this infrastructure push for economies, ecosystems and communities.
Read the study to learn more: gdpcenter.org/...