Environmental Disputes and the BRI
By EsqSocial Corporation 19/05/21
In 2013, China launched the Belt and Road Initiative ("BRI"), a mass-scale infrastructure program involving over 140 countries across all continents, and encompassing hundreds of projects, such as highways, power plants, and ports. A few years later, in April 2016, some 196 States, including China, adopted the UN Paris Agreement, which is a legally binding international treaty on climate change aiming to create a climate-neutral world by curbing greenhouse-gas emissions to well below 2 degrees...
By: White & Case LLP