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Analysis: How China’s National Emissions Trading Scheme Will Work

By Jingwei Jia and Mervyn Tang The operational phase of China’s national emission trading scheme (ETS) has begun, with the measures that form the legal basis of the scheme coming into effect on Feb. 1 and trading set...

IFS & Hillhouse Roundtable: The Impact of China’s Carbon Goals

The Paulson Institute supported the IFS and Hillhouse Roundtable on understanding how China’s carbon goals impact industry. China’s path to achieving its carbon peak and neutrality goals will be challenging, but experts are actively engaged...

The Green Team Speaks to Duan Maosheng

The Green Team Speaks to Xu Lin

Building a Greener Future with Green Cement

China Accelerates National Carbon Emissions Trading Market

The Green Team Speaks to…Meng Meng

Sizing Up China’s Carbon Markets

While China is the largest carbon emitter in the world, the aggregate trading volume of China’s existing carbon markets is only a small fraction of the EU and US markets (including California and the Regional...

Deborah Lehr: “Why China’s carbon market is failing to take off”

In 2015, China asserted its commitment to becoming the world’s largest national carbon market – it now needs to find the political will to fulfill that promise. BY Deborah Lehr, Vice Chairman and Executive Director...

Beijing Poised to be First International Green Finance Center in China

By Gracie Sun, Senior Advisor and Managing Director of Green Finance Center, Paulson Institute Beijing has grand ambitions to be China’s first International Green Finance Center. To achieve this designation, it has embarked on an...