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Deborah Lehr
Deborah Lehr
Deborah Lehr is vice-chairman of the Paulson Institute, which she helped launch. She serves as a senior adviser to the chairman on US–China relations, and provides counsel on strategic issues for the Paulson Institute. In addition, Lehr heads up the Paulson Institute Green Finance Centre, where her work includes helping to devise and establish the US-China Green Fund.

It is not easy to advance economic growth while protecting the environment but if China wavers in its climate goals, the long-term costs for it – and the world – would be overwhelming.

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With the world’s largest carbon trading market, huge green bond market and plethora of green private equity funds, China has shown that well-crafted regulatory, policy and financial frameworks can spur private interest in green finance.

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