foreign investors. Recently, Chinese firms, banks and government bodies have increasingly invested in large hydropower … natural resources like water and energy resources. In search for climate-friendly low-carbon energy, cheap electricity and … more than 50 on-going large hydropower projects as contractors, investors, regulators and financiers. These Chinese …

The paper examines the role of environmental norms in Chinese overseas investment in hydropower dams, exemplified by … Sinohydro’s involvement in the Bui Dam in Ghana. While the investment of Western companies in hydropower dams in the global …