This briefing paper provides an overview of Convention on Biological Diversity, focusing on the history, the operation and decision-making mechanism, multiple strategy plans and their implementation, two protocols under Convention on Biological Diversity, and the implementation progress in China, with the aim to help participants catch up on the progress of global biodiversity governance.

This report reviews the objectives, policies and support measures of international and Chinese financial institutions in relation to renewable energy investment and financing from four aspects, and proposes recommendations for Chinese financial institutions to improve the policy framework and practices in supporting renewable energies to contribute to the implementation of the dual carbon targets and the Paris Agreement.

This briefing serves as a reference for the 1st training session of the Chinese Social Organization’s Contribution to Global Ecological and Environmental Governance: Stocktaking of the Sustainable Development Agenda and Global Environmental Governance. We hope that the briefing will provide participating partner organizations with a “fast track” into relevant international environmental processes.

In order to reduce and avoid social and financial risks arising from environmental factors in China’s overseas investment , and guide domestic institutions to follow the Principles for Responsible Investment, further greening the BRI by fully integrating the notion of ecological civilization and low-carbon into the implementation，and contribute to achieving United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and goals of Paris Agreement, the Green Finance Committee of Finance Association of China (hereinafter referred to as the Green Finance Committee) established the Task Force on Environmental Risk Management for China’s Overseas Investment in 2017, a move under Environmental Risk Management Initiative for China’s Overseas Investment jointly launched by seven associations and committees subordinated to ministries. Subsequently, Environmental Risk Management Manual for China’s Overseas Investment (hereinafter referred to as the “Manual”) was finalized by the Task Force and was issued at the International Green Finance Forum hosted by Green Finance Committee in April 2018.Authored by GHub and supported by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, this report, as the main part of the Manual, mainly includes the objective, scope and general guidelines for environmental risk management of China’s overseas investment, typical environmental risk identification and assessment cases of BRI countries, country-specific climate risk management cases, as well as international conventions, industry norms and national laws and regulations.