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Mathias Lund Larsen

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Mathias Lund Larsen is the Director of International Cooperation at IIGF, as well as a Research Fellow at CUFE. He is specialized in the role of the private sector in sustainable development, having worked for UN-Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya and the UN Global Compact in New York, USA. His research focuses on relations between Chinese and international green finance, including within bonds, climate finance flows, and multilateral development bank cooperation. Holding four master’s degrees, he has completed a double master in international business & politics and CEMS international management from Copenhagen Business School, Warsaw School of Economics, and Rotterdam School of Management, as well as a double master in international development and international relations from Sciences Po Paris and Peking University. He has written several publications for the UN and is fluent in English and Chinese.
Green Finance Policy

The US’s Covid-19 economic stimulus package’s green finance implications as well as ramifications for US-China cooperation and the BRI

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US China Belt and Road Covid

1. The importance of relations between green finance and stimulus packages in concept and historically Green finance policies and economic stimulus packages overlap at a number of levels. In an era where the global community faces both the immediate economic consequences of Covid-19 as well as the urgent need to…

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Sustainable Development Goals

The role of green finance in the EU’s Covid-19 economic stimulus package, and implications for EU-China coordination in general and in the BRI

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The importance of relations between green finance and stimulus packages in concept and historically Green finance policies and economic stimulus packages overlap at a number of levels. In an era where the global community faces both the immediate economic consequences of Covid-19 as well as the urgent need to transition…

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Biodiversity-finance

Integrating Climate Change and Biodiversity Ambitions in Chinese Global Engagements such as the Belt and Road Initiative

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Biodiversity and climate change in the bRI

Summary – from climate to biodiversity in the BRI and beyond In the midst of increasing global awareness of environmental and sustainability problems, two interconnected issues are high on the agenda for 2020: climate change and biodiversity. This is in particular true for China who is both under pressure to…

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Climate Finance

The Potential of MDBs in Greening the Belt and Road Initiative – Executive Summary

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Executive Summary How MDB Characteristics can Address the BRI’s Green Challenges through Financing Solutions, Coordination Activities, and Policy Support Simply put, global climate and environmental goals can only be met if they are an integral part of the development paths of BRI countries. This is true alone because BRI collectively…

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Climate Finance

The Potential of MDBs in Greening the Belt and Road Initiative: The Role of MDB Financing and Capacity Solutions

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Belt and Road Multilateral Development Banks

MDBs are increasing their involvement in sustainable infrastructure finance by scaling up climate investments and by integrating social and environmental issues into their general financing requirements as a cross-cutting issue. Based on their characteristics MDBs can play a number of important roles in greening the BRI. For the context of…

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