Climate Change

Climate change is both a development and environmental issue. A global consensus is emerging that climate change is an issue that cannot wait and needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.
Today there is a double challenge: how to reduce damaging carbon emissions and still meet the energy demands of the world's poor. The World Bank focuses on the additional economic and social opportunities that a low carbon path creates.
Countries trying to escape from poverty should not be penalized

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