CUI Ying

Personal Information

POSITION: Deputy Director General
DEPARTMENT: Climate Finance Team
LANGUAGES: Chinese, English
KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Climate Finance, Carbon Market Mechanisms, Green Bonds

Contact information

TELEPHONE: +8613488867130
EMAIL: cuiying@iigf.com.cn

Ying CUI is the Deputy Director General of the International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF) at the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE). She is also a member of the Carbon Peaking and Neutrality Professional Committee under the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and has accumulated over 17 years of working experience in the field of climate change. Her primary research areas include Climate Finance, Carbon Market Mechanisms, and Green Bonds. Ying CUI possesses extensive research experience collaborating with entities such as the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Natural Resources, local governments, and international institutions like the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), World Resources Institute (WRI), and Energy Foundation (EF). Furthermore, Ying CUI has taken on roles as an assessor or reviewer for more than 30 green bond evaluation and verification projects.

Publications by Cui Ying:

Books:
(1) “2020 China Climate Financing Report”, China Financial Publishing House, 2019;
(2) “2018 China Climate Financing Report”, China Financial Publishing House, 2019;
(3) “2017 China Climate Financing Report”, China Financial Publishing House, 2018.

Published articles:
(1) “Practical Analysis of Green Financial Governance Architecture”, Financial Times, Feb. 2023;
(2) “Carbon Market Development requires the Use of Good Carbon Financial Tools”, Yingda Finance, Dec. 2022;
(3) “The Content, Impact, and Countermeasures of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism”, Financial Landscape, Aug. 2022;
(4) “Carry out Climate Investment and Financing Pilot Projects to Promote Innovation in the Financial System”, Environmental Economy, Jan. 2022;
(5) “The path and practice of eco-value realization of EOD project”, China Land, No.10, 2021;
(6) “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and its impact on China”, China State Finance, No.19, 2021;
(7) “Progress and suggestions on global climate investment and financing”, Financial Perspectives Journal, June 2021;
(8) “Paths and suggestions for carbon market to promote the realization of ecological product value”, China Sustainability Tribune, May 2021;
(9) “Problems and paths of green asset securitization innovation”, Unity, July 2020;
(10) “Green finance promotes the high-quality development of banking and insurance industry”, Financial View, Mar. 2020;
(11) “International and domestic progress of climate financing and policy suggestions for China”, Environmental Protection, No. 24, 2019;
(12) “2018 China Environmental Rights Trading Market Report”, Environmental Economy, No.18, 2019;
(13) “The Belt and Road Climate Investment and Financing”, Financial View, Jul. 2019;
(14) “Progress in Global Climate Financing”, Financial View, Feb. 2019.

Research projects:
(1) “Qingdao West Coast New District Climate Investment and Financing Pilot Project”, West Coast New District Division of Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment;
(2) “Research on the key issues of climate bonds”, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment;
(3) “Adapt now: Increasing investment to build climate-resilient infrastructure in China”, World Resources Institute;
(4) “Research on how green finance can help on greening the Belt and Road”, the Ministry of Education;
(5) “Assessment of Entry Points for KfW Development Bank into the Chinese Green Bond Market”, KfW;
(6) “Study on diversified financing and operation mechanism of land and space ecological protection and restoration”, the Ministry of Natural Resources;
(7) “The State and Effectiveness of the Green Bond Market in China”, Climate Policy Initiative;
(8) “MRV System Design: Recommendations for Chinese Green Bonds”, Climate Policy Initiative;
(9) “Internationalization of the ‘one belt, one road’ Climate Investment and financing”, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment;
(10) “Research on Developments in China’s Carbon Financial Market–Ideas for construction of a carbon futures market and its institutional framework”, Energy Foundation.