Under Ajay Banga’s presidency, the World Bank has unequivocally added climate change to its anti-poverty mandate, and the debate over whether the bank can do both is moot.
Or is it?
Bjørn Lomborg has become a well-known climate contrarian, emphatically refuting conventional wisdom that climate change is an immediate existential threat and that it cannot be divorced from the “intertwined” — one of Banga’s favorite terms — crisis of poverty.
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Anna Gawel
Anna Gawel is the Managing Editor of Devex. She previously worked as the managing editor of The Washington Diplomat, the flagship publication of D.C.’s diplomatic community. She’s had hundreds of articles published on world affairs, U.S. foreign policy, politics, security, trade, travel and the arts on topics ranging from the impact of State Department budget cuts to Caribbean efforts to fight climate change. She was also a broadcast producer and digital editor at WTOP News and host of the Global 360 podcast. She holds a journalism degree from the University of Maryland in College Park.
