Southeast Asia's climate fight can't be left to government alone

Private capital can help to finance mitigation and adaptation solutions

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Children plant mangroves in West Java province, Indonesia: Restoring 303,000 hectares of Southeast Asian mangroves could protect more than 4 million people in coastal areas. © Reuters

Laurence Lien is chairman and co-founder of the Asia Philanthropy Circle, a network for collective impactful giving, and was previously a presidentially nominated member of the Parliament of Singapore.

Like many others, I returned home from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai this month filled with cautious optimism.

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