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World Banks Kim Vows Climate-Change Focus to Help Ease Poverty
2013-04-02 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim vowed to boost the lenders contribution to easing the effects of climate change as part of a new goal to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030. Helping mitigate shocks, including those caused by global warming, is one of the conditions needed to reach the poverty reduction target, Kim said in a speech at Georgetown University in Washington today. Also required is sustained fast growth in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa and reduced income inequality, he said. ...
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