Events

Nature as Infrastructure

[embed]https://youtu.be/f2zgCT3UgQA[/embed] Financing nature has long been an important topic and conversation. Natural systems—forests, wetlands, mangroves, watersheds, coral reefs—perform vital economic functions that have been historically treated as free. And yet the capital has not followed...

The Future of Financing Nature

[embed]https://youtu.be/IejnI35wFjw[/embed] Protecting and restoring nature is one of the defining economic and environmental challenges of our time. With more than half the world’s GDP moderately or highly dependent on nature and biodiversity, the urgency to...

The Rise of the Adaptation Economy

2025 Green Finance Committee Annual Meeting

Recently, the annual meeting of the Green Finance Committee (GFC) of the China Society for Finance and Banking was held in Huzhou, Zhejiang. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Two Mountains concept (Lucid...

Returning to Huzhou

Establishing Global Common Sustainable Disclosure Standards to Reduce Corporate Compliance Costs

On November 22, 2024, the International Finance Forum (IFF) convened its 21st Annual Meeting in Hong Kong, featuring an important sub-forum titled Green Finance and Sustainable Development: Financial Support for a Green Economy. The event...

PI Works to Promote Global Coordination of Green Finance Standards

This summer, the fourth Park City Forum took place in Chengdu, China with participants at the sub-forum on Urban Development Opportunities and Green Finance Cooperation, focused on crucial urban development and green finance issues. They...

The Green Team Speaks to Lan Hong

Professor Lan Hong is from the She ethnic group. Lan has a Ph.D. in Economics and is the Deputy Director of the Ecological Finance Research Center, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Department of Environmental...

The Green Team Speaks to Violante di Canossa

Violante di Canossa (Viola) is the Development Economist and Head of Research and Policy Team at UNDP China. She has been collaborating with the office since 2018, first as the leading author of a study...

Green Finance Committee Annual Meeting