ОТ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ УГРОЗ К НОВЫМ ПРАВИЛАМ И ИНСТРУМЕНТАМ РАЗВИТИЯ В ЕВРАЗИИ

Общественные науки и современность. 2015. № 6. С. 29–33.

Shvarts E., Симонов Е. А.

Realization of an ambitious integration project “Silk Road Economic Belt” is to be fi nanced
through the system of the newly created “China-led” development institutions (Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank (AIIB), BRICS Bank (New Development Bank) and at least 5 other fi nancial
institutions. There is an urgent need to prevent the lowering of environmental safeguards standards –
“ecological damping” during implementation of transboundary strategies and projects by the newly
created fi nancial institutions as compared with the existing policies and procedures of Bretton Woods
System institutions, including Bank/IFC Group, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). As one of such measures it is suggested to
expand the regional applicability of the Convention on the Environmental Impact Assessment in
a Transboundary Context of UNECE and its Protocol on Strategic environmental assessment or to
adopt a similar Asian convention of UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacifi c
(ESCAP).

Keywords: окружающая среда, экологическая политика, The Silk Road Economic Belt, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Экономический пояс Шелкового пути (ЭПШП), strategic environmental assessment (SEA), Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, BRICS Bank (New Development Bank), стратегическая экологическая оценка, Банк BRICS, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)