Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure
The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissi...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/700631548446492003/Reducing-Environmental-Risks-from-Belt-and-Road-Initiative-Investments-in-Transportation-Infrastructure http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31186 |
| Summary: | The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its
diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a
wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily
identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy
projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as
transportation infrastructure, due to their vast geographic
reach, generate more complex and potentially more extensive
environmental risks. The proposed Belt and Road Initiative
rail and road investments have stimulated concerns because
of the history of significant negative environmental impacts
from large-scale transportation projects across the globe.
This paper studies environmental risks -- direct and
indirect -- from Belt and Road Initiative transportation
projects and the mitigation strategies and policies to
address them. The paper concludes with a recommendation on
how to take advantage of the scale of the Belt and Road
Initiative to address these concerns in a way not typically
available to stand-alone projects. In short, this scale
motivates and permits early integrated development and
conservation planning. |
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