Xiao Geng

Climate Change Environmental Sustainability

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Xiao Geng is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance and is a professor and Director of the Institute of Policy and Practice at the Shenzhen Finance Institute at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

Andrew Sheng

Sep 30 2022

Sustainable development is a matter of market design

Illuminem Voices

Climate Change · Environmental Sustainability

The SDGs are supposed to “end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all” by 2030. But the latest SDG report makes for grim reading. “Cascading and interlinked global crises” — including the COVID-19 pandemic, global warming, war, inflation and polarization — are jeopardizing the SDG agenda, having already reversed years of progress toward eradicating poverty and hunger.