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Ma Jun is the founder and director of the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), the Beijing-based environmental research organisation that developed China’s first public database of water pollution information. He first became known as an investigative journalist at the South China Morning Post, where he specialised in environmental reporting, and is the author of China’s Water Crisis, widely regarded as the first major book on the country’s environmental challenges. He was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world and has received the Goldman Environmental Prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, and the Skoll Award.

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Oct 20 2026

Building Bridges 2026 makes implementation the priority for sustainable finance

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Nature · Adaptation

Three days in Geneva left sustainable finance with a harder question to answer: how quickly capital can reach the projects that need it

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