Affiliation:
1. Manfred Horvat is an honorary professor at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and adjunct professor at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
2. Peng Gong is a professor at and chair of the Department of Earth System Science and dean of the School of Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Abstract
Last month, at the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing, President Xi Jinping gave an update on China's $US1.3 trillion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This massive land, sea, and digital enterprise aims to create improved economic, social, and environmental conditions between China and 126 cooperating countries from Asia, Europe, and Africa through strengthened connectivity by constructing roads, railways, IT networks, power stations, pipelines, airports, and ports. President Xi acknowledged growing international concerns about environmental damage along the BRI. Now, China must commit to addressing these issues. China's use of science and technology (S&T) as an instrument to build BRI relationships should likewise be used to examine and minimize the environmental impacts of BRI projects.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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