Environmental challenges for the belt and road initiative.

In 2013, China launched an ambitious foreign policy initiative that will greatly influence the future of global trade, particularly in Asia, Africa and Europe—the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This initiative involves a massive development of trade routes between and within these regions, referencing the historic Silk Road, but on a much broader scale. According to the Chinese government, at least 64 other countries are expected to participate, involving roughly two-thirds of the global population and one-third of the global economy 1. The BRI involves a largescale expansion of land transportation infrastructure (the Silk Road Economic Belt component), coupled with the development of new ports in the Pacific and Indian oceans (the twenty-first-century Maritime Silk Road component; Fig. 1). These new infrastructures are expected to facilitate regional and intercontinental trade flow, and increase oil and gas supply. Core … Palabras clave: Environmental impact assessment

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Ascensão F. Fahrig L. Clevenger A.P. Corlett R.T. Jaeger J.A.G. Laurance W.F. y Pereira H.M. Environmental challenges for the belt and road initiative. Nature, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0059-3

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