Building the “Green Silk Road” Towards Global Carbon Neutrality—China’s Path Choice

The ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative (BRI) has made substantial progress. However, countries partnering in BRI face practical challenges, such as rapid growth in carbon emissions, severe carbon leakage, and various obstacles to carbon peak and neutrality. Climate change is increasingly hindering the BRI countries from achieving sustainable development. From a carbon neutrality perspective, it is significant to accelerate the builiding of the ‘Green Silk Road’. Therefore, this paper presents the following policy recommendations: strengthen green and low-carbon cooperation with BRI countries at the national level, establish a green development system at the BRI level, propose a China’s path choice to climate governance risks at the global level.