Executive Director, Nature Finance, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Director, Transition Asia
Joined December 2008
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The flip side of the country’s delusion that it wants to be a tech superpower when you can’t even get a phone signal is that it’s become the ultimate AI hedge.
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Reminder of tonight's @BjEnergyNetwork talk by @laurimyllyvirta on China's role in peaking global emissions. 8pm at Cafe Zarah in Beijing.
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Almost half of Ireland’s corporation tax haul comes from just three companies: Apple, Eli Lilly and Microsoft. ft.com/content/637d66c0-0b2d…
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"Artificial intelligence is threatening to upend every business model, and the debt structures built around them. Buyout firms are particularly exposed after amassing a big bet on software-as-a-service firms now vulnerable to AI disruption."
Force majeure has long protected companies from acts of God. Now some borrowers want protection from acts of AI bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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“Whatever parallels one might draw between marriage and partnership, BigLaw has perfected the art of enjoying the financial benefits of matrimony without the inconvenience of fidelity.” The FT has the best comment section. ft.com/content/98dfc71b-19eb…
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Like it or Not, the EU and China are Already Engaged In a Trade War thewirechina.com/2026/10/18/…
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Reflection on the Singapore Haze and Indonesia Forest Fires. substack.com/@calvinquek1/no…
The huge lurking leverage of AI hyperscalers ft.com/content/17a207f4-1563… via @ft
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Letter: The globalisation of AI borrowing is a problem ft.com/content/3fedc618-ad67… via @ft
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My friend @JChengWSJ 's book on the connection between North Korea and Christianity "Korean Messiah" is runner-up for the Cundill Prize. My book review here: sinicapodcast.com/p/book-rev…
The runners-up for the prize, who each receive US$10,000, are Jonathan Cheng for “Korean Messiah: Kim II Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality Cult” and Alexander Lee for “The First Ghetto: Venice and the Jews.”
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If you're in Beijing on Nov 4, I'm doing a talk at this event hosted by the Beijing Energy Network.
Going after the companies is important as a pressure tactic but the longer term effort should be to instill and institutionalize soil, water and forest management practices - practices which fell by the wayside in recent years. ft.com/content/b9a45b74-72f6…
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Data from @rhodium_group
shows that in the early 2010s, Chinese funding in Africa concentrated on projects tied to natural resource extraction. Last year, however, investment in manufacturing and processing reached $7.7bn, exceeding the $4.8bn invested in extraction.
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