{"id":633611,"date":"2026-09-23T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633611\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:46:08","slug":"opinion-protecting-nature-is-possible-through-innovative-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633611\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Protecting nature is possible through innovative financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ALISCLS255DIPE4F6WRAVDK6EU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Henry M. Paulson Jr., chairman of the Paulson Institute, was U.S. treasury secretary from 2006 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UHZPQJFMURGONG5YALSQB7F2XQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The world is looking away while nature is vanishing. Against the currents of geopolitical, technological and economic upheaval, protecting the environment can seem like a luxury, a concern to be deferred until the world is finally at peace. But by then, it will be too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry M. Paulson Jr., chairman of the Paulson Institute, was U.S. treasury secretary from 2006 to 2009. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-633611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}