ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the barriers to promoting impact investing in China, and offers insights into how impact investing can be incorporated into the already-present push to green and circularize China's economy. The challenge is to demonstrate to relevant Chinese stakeholders that impact investment is a crucial component in the transition to a green economy. There is a great opportunity right now to show the benefits of impact investing and expand its influence in China. Due to environmental pressures and a newfound impetus to sustain long-term economic growth, China's environmental policy has become one of the most forward-thinking in the world. One policy that integrates economic and environmental goals particularly well is the 2008 Circular Economy Promotion Law. The law was introduced as a means to set China's industrial growth and heavy resource use on a path towards long-term environmental sustainability.
