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.