Infrastructure is often viewed through global and promotional lenses, particularly its role in creating market connectivity. However, infrastructure is heavily dependent on and constitutive of local spaces, where ‘frictions’, or disputes, emerge. Drawing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a case study, we examine in detail two cases of BRI-related climate change litigation – one in Pakistan, and one in Kenya – that shed light on the frictions arising from what is deemed the most significant transnational infrastructure project of our time. In doing so, this study demonstrates how infrastructure can be made more visible in environmental law and how environmental law itself provides an important mechanism for stabilizing friction in the places where infrastructure is located.

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让基础设施在环境法中“可见”：“一带一路”倡议与气候变化摩擦

基础设施通常通过全球和促销视角来看待，特别是其在创造市场连通性方面的作用。然而，基础设施严重依赖并构成局部空间，在这些空间中会出现“摩擦”或争议。我们以“一带一路”倡议 (BRI) 作为案例研究，详细研究了两个与“一带一路”倡议相关的气候变化诉讼案例——一个在巴基斯坦，一个在肯尼亚我们这个时代最重要的跨国基础设施项目。通过这样做，本研究展示了如何使基础设施在环境法中更加明显，以及环境法本身如何为稳定基础设施所在地区的摩擦提供重要机制。