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Paulson Institute Co-Hosts Green Finance Conference

On the margins of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank fall meetings, senior level international and U.S. experts convened for the “Greening the Financial System: From Momentum to Transformation” conference on October 7th, 2016 in Washington,...

China Is Ready to Leapfrog U.S. in Carbon Markets

By Karen Weigert The Obama administration’s stalled effort to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, the Clean Power Plan, was back before the courts on Tuesday. Even if it survives the process, the Clean Power...

How Anheng Group is Saving China’s Water

In China, where the annual water deficit is over 50 billion cubic meters and the average urban water supply leakage rate is 15%, water waste is a growing social and economic concern. Last year, the...

Ye Qing on why a people-centric approach to urbanization is so important

The Shenzhen International Low-Carbon City project doesn’t follow the usual Chinese playbook. Instead of tearing down existing buildings and factories and replacing them with glassy skyscrapers—which often sit empty—the Shenzhen project has taken a more...

Kate Gordon & Anders Hove: “How China Wastes Its Renewable Energy”

Paulson Institute Co-Hosts Green Finance Conference in Shanghai

International experts on green finance, including members of the G20 Green Finance Study Group, convened in Shanghai on September 6 to explore how countries can adopt the recommendations set forth by the G20 during the...

The Paulson Institute Newsletter – August 2016

Why Tianjin’s Mayors Are Studying Green Economics

By Claron Niu On a recent overcast day in Chicago’s Millennium Park, a group of officials from the Chinese mega-city Tianjin crowded around to hear Scott Stewart, the executive director of the park’s Lurie Garden,...

How Selfishness Is Disrupting China’s State-Controlled Financial System

By Houze Song For anyone who thinks that China’s government can control its state-dominated economy by diktat, the chaotic financial story unfolding in northern Liaoning province is proof that the state-owned sector, and even provincial...

The Costs of China’s Wasted Wind Power

While China leads the world in wind energy capacity, its struggles to connect that clean energy to the grid are wasting money and resulting in unnecessary coal consumption, according to a new Paulson Institute report....