Buckling the Belt: Environment and Development and the Belt and Road Initiative
Channel: TuftsIGL
Date: 2021-03-22

Moderators: Arjun Padalkar and David Jiang, EPIIC Colloquium
Rishikesh Ram Bhandary post-doctoral scholar at the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University. He is an expert on climate finance and international climate negotiations.
Elizabeth Losos is a senior fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. She is currently exploring how to plan for and optimize the environmental impact of infrastructure expansion in Asia, Africa, and Europe that is stimulated by China’s new silk road initiative.
Joyce Msuya, Deputy Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme
Jennifer Turner, has been the director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for 18 years where she creates meetings, exchanges and publications focusing on a variety of energy and environmental challenges facing China, particularly on water, energy and green civil society issues.