China Green Development Lab launched at LSE by the Global School of Sustainability and the Grantham Research Institute

The Grantham Research Institute and Global School of Sustainability (GSoS) have launched the China Green Development Lab, a new initiative focused on China’s green transition and its growing role in shaping global climate action.

The Lab will be led by Dr Mathias Larsen and chaired by Professor Nicholas Stern.

Working with partners including government bodies, think tanks, universities, companies and financial institutions, it will support Chinese officials in designing policies to green the country’s growth and policymakers in other countries wishing to better understand China’s role in their own sustainable transitions and learn from China’s experience.

The Lab will develop research and policy recommendations across four priority areas:

1. Greening growth in China: designing a comprehensive policy roadmap for greening growth, applying central ideas from professor Lord Nicholas Stern on the green transition as a growth opportunity.
2. China’s role in advancing the climate agenda in international fora: detailing the role China could take in advancing the climate agenda across global platforms.
3. China’s outward-facing green financing: providing groundbreaking data and extensive analysis of the impacts of and possibilities for Chinese financing, supporting country partnerships to develop green industries.
4. Global lessons from China’s green policies: distilling China’s experience into usable policy lessons for other countries, especially within fiscal and monetary policy.

In addressing these priorities, the Lab will work across the five themes of the Global School of Sustainability.

Dr Mathias Larsen, Senior Policy Fellow and Head of the China Green Development Lab, said: “We want the Lab to be a place where research translates into practical insights, working closely with partners in China and elsewhere on the questions policymakers are facing now.”