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Ma Jun

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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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    America’s “HIP” Economy

    Todd G. Buchholz sees developments and breakthroughs in health, information, and power as grounds for optimism.
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    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

    Andrés Velasco reflects on the tragic fate of the country that took him in as a teenage refugee from Augusto Pinochet's Chile.
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    The Global Divide Over the Ukraine War

    Brahma Chellaney urges all parties to adopt a realistic approach to a deadlocked conflict and negotiate accordingly.
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    Europe Confronts the Ghosts of History

    Shlomo Ben-Ami highlights just how profound a transformation European – especially German – rearmament represents.
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    Trump’s Self-Inflicted Trade Disaster

    Kaushik Basu

    US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs have triggered a wave of retaliatory measures, setting off a trade war with key partners and raising fears of a global downturn. But while Trump’s protectionism and erratic policy shifts could have far-reaching implications, the greatest victim is likely to be the United States itself.

     warns that the new administration’s protectionism resembles the strategy many developing countries once tried.
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    The End of Germany’s Economic Delusions?

    Katharina Pistor

    It took a pandemic and the threat of war to get Germany to dispense with the two taboos – against debt and monetary financing of budgets – that have strangled its governments for decades. Now, it must join the rest of Europe in offering a positive vision of self-sufficiency and an “anti-fascist economic policy.”

     welcomes the apparent departure from two policy taboos that have strangled the country's investment.
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    The Fed, the Fund, and the Bank in Trump’s Crosshairs

    Barry Eichengreen explains why the US president’s second administration, unlike his first, is targeting all three.
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    Europe Can Easily Safeguard Ukraine

    Daniel Gros points out that the EU, the UK, and Norway have all they need to keep Russia at bay, without help from the US.
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    Toward a North American Economic Union

    Nouriel Roubini explains why Canada, Mexico, and the United States should pursue EU-style integration.

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