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Ma Jun, President of the Beijing-based Institute of Finance and Sustainability and Chairman of the Green Finance Committee at the China Society for Finance and Banking, is Chair of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association and the Capacity-Building Alliance of Sustainable Investment, and a former co-chair of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group.

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  1. Green Free Trade in a Protectionist Age
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    Green Free Trade in a Protectionist Age

    Jan 29, 2025 Ma Jun envisions regional arrangements that facilitate the exchange of climate-friendly goods and services.

  2. A Low-Carbon Belt and Road
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    A Low-Carbon Belt and Road

    Mar 28, 2019 Ma Jun & Simon Zadek propose steps to ensure that the coming wave of infrastructure investment doesn't overwhelm climate goals.

  3. A Climate-Friendly Financial System
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    A Climate-Friendly Financial System

    Dec 13, 2018 Ma Jun & Caio Koch-Weser highlight how banks and others are – and should be – supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy.

  4. The G20 Embraces Green Finance
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    The G20 Embraces Green Finance

    Sep 5, 2016 Ma Jun & Simon Zadek applaud the new focus on aligning financial systems with the needs of a sustainable economy.

  5. Greening China’s Financial System
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    Greening China’s Financial System

    May 11, 2015 Ma Jun & Simon Zadek describe the country’s leading role in promoting finance for sustainable development worldwide.

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    It’s Time to Abandon Trump’s Flawed Negotiation Playbook

    Michele Gelfand points out that the best dealmakers strive for win-win outcomes, not zero-sum Pyrrhic victories.
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    America’s Last Chance to Lead in Fusion Energy

    Ylli Bajraktari warns that China's domination of the sector would give it massive economic and geopolitical leverage.
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    China Can’t Spend Its Way Out of Trouble

    Kenneth Rogoff

    China’s prolonged reliance on fiscal stimulus has distorted economic incentives, fueling a housing glut, a collapse in prices, and spiraling public debt. With further stimulus off the table, the only sustainable path is for the central government to relinquish more economic power to local governments and the private sector.

     argues that the country’s problems can be traced back to its response to the 2008 financial crisis.
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    This UN Debt Initiative Is Different

    Mahmoud Mohieldin, et al. tout an Expert Group’s efforts to prevent a full-blown solvency crisis in developing countries.
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    What African Electrification Requires

    Fatih Birol & Alain Ebobissé highlight the need for greater private-sector participation to boost investments in power grids.
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    How World Order Changes

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    World order is a matter of degree: it varies over time, depending on technological, political, social, and ideological factors that can affect the global distribution of power and influence norms. It can be radically altered both by broader historical trends and by a single major power's blunders.

     examines the role of evolving power dynamics and norms in bringing about stable arrangements among states.
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    Israel’s Blind Spot

    Ian Buruma explains the lack of sympathy, even among the country’s many anti-war protesters, for Palestinian suffering.
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    Will AI Close or Widen the Development Gap?

    Shamika Sirimanne & Xiaolan Fu call for multilateral action and grassroots pressure to ensure that the technology serves all countries.
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    Don’t Let Governments Break Encryption

    Jessica Dickinson Goodman & Ezequiel Passeron Kitroser urge citizens and lawmakers to fight for the privacy that previous generations took for granted.

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