<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-0499</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2712-9101</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Russian Academy of Science</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/S086904990011578-7</article-id><title-group><article-title>From Environmental Threats to New Development Rules and Tools in Eurasia</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>От экологических угроз к новым правилам и инструментам развития в Евразии</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid"></contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Shvarts</surname><given-names>Evgeny</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Шварц</surname><given-names>Евгений Аркадьевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>e.a.shvarts@igras.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid"></contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Simonov</surname><given-names>Eugene</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Симонов</surname><given-names>Евгений Алексеевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>esimonovster@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Всемирный фонд дикой природы (WWF) России</institution><institution xml:lang="en">WWF-Russia</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-2"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Коалиция “Реки без границ”(RwB) КНР</institution><institution xml:lang="en">Rivers without Boundaries Coalition</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2015-12-17" publication-format="electronic"><day>17</day><month>12</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><issue>6</issue><fpage>29</fpage><lpage>33</lpage><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>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).</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Реализацию амбициозного интеграционного проекта “экономического пояса Шелкового пути” планируется финансировать системой вновь создающихся новых “институтов развития”, в первую очередь – Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) и Банк BRICS (New Development Bank). Чтобы предотвратить “экологический демпинг” при реализации трансграничных проектов вновь создаваемыми финансовыми институтами развития по сравнению с действующими политиками и процедурами институтов развития Бреттон-Вудской системы (Bretton Woods System), в том числе группы Всемирного банка/IFC, Азиатского банка развития (ADB) и Европейского банка реконструкции и развития, предлагается расширить региональную приуроченность действия “Конвенции об оценке воздействия на окружающую среду в трансграничном контексте” ЕЭК ООН или принять аналогичную азиатскую конвенцию Экономической и социальной комиссии для Азии и Тихого океана (ЭСКАТО) ООН.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context; Silk Road Economic Belt; strategic environmental assessment; BRICS Bank (New Development Bank)</kwd><kwd>Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>экологическая политика</kwd><kwd>окружающая среда</kwd><kwd>экономический пояс Шелкового пути</kwd><kwd>стратегическая экологическая оценка</kwd><kwd>Банк BRICS</kwd><kwd>Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>B1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Глазырина И.П., Симонов Е.А. 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