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China Looks to Private Sector to Boost Investment in Environmental Protection

By Li Zhu and Terry Townshend As Beijing hosts the annual ‘two meetings’ (the National People’s Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) to address the nation’s priorities for the year...

Accelerate the Fight Against Climate Change

By Henry M. Paulson, Jr. The fact that climate change poses an extreme risk to the global economy, plunders our environment, and threatens national security is, by now, well documented. The questions are how to...

How China’s Corporates Can Align Their Strategy With a Changing Climate

Setting science-based targets on climate change and adopting the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures could precipitate a sustainable transformation for China’s corporate sector. By Tom Delay Strategy. It is taught at...

Gumbo and Guangzhou: What New Orleans Can Teach Guangdong Mayors

“If you were building a city today, you would not build it where New Orleans was built,” explained Col. Terry Ebbert, Director of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the City of New Orleans. He...

Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement in China

The Paulson Institute and the China Center for International Economic Exchanges held a workshop about corporate renewable energy procurement and the role of setting Science-based Targets (SBT) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The workshop was...

Join the Race to Zero. Don’t get left behind.

By Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Earlier in my career, I would often hear from business leaders that environmental responsibility was a worthy goal, but hardly a strategic priority. In the name of corporate social responsibility,...

Phylicia Wu: “Ant Financial and the Greening of Fintech”

Kevin Mo: “Garlic village experiments with eco-farming”

The Paulson Institute Newsletter – October 2017

Caught in a Dilemma: How Can Sustainable Agriculture Save Erhai Lake and Address Poverty?

By Kevin Mo It was a sunny day in August 2017 with a clear blue sky and white clouds drifting over the historic Southern Chinese city of Dali. Driving around Erhai Lake, we were amazed...