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2022 Financial Street Forum

Debt for Nature Swap

PI Attends COP 15

Hydrogen and the Business of Climate Change

The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report from April 22 made clear that the path to net-zero will need the absolute engagement of new technologies and innovations that accelerate and augment current decarbonization...

What the Private Sector Thinks about the Business of Climate in the US-China Relationship

The US-China relationship is challenging but remains the most consequential bilateral relationship today.  And specifically, in the climate space, it is imperative that both countries address issues domestically and find common ground for collaboration to...

Climate on the NDRC Docket

By Phylicia Wu, Director, Green Finance Center China’s powerful National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has advancing China’s ambitious climate agenda high on its docket. This comes at a time when environment, climate, and carbon...

Finance for Nature: Making Nature Count

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO1jlVKTGAQ[/embed] The COVID-19 pandemic should have been a predictable crisis, and yet we are in danger of sleepwalking into another, caused by staggering biodiversity loss. With tropical forests in retreat and the extinction of species...

Egypt should go green by putting a price on carbon

By Deborah Lehr It is time for Egypt to put a price on carbon. While Cairo has taken small steps toward developing a sustainability plan, it needs a bold idea to stop rising carbon emissions....

One of China’s Most Important Rivers is Under Threat

China and the EU Advance Climate Cooperation

The European Union and China are advancing their effort to coordinate on climate action. Last month, Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng and Executive Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans held the first virtual...