World Bank's Climate Change Envoy Steers Around Hot-Button Issues (Energy and Environment News)

The Energy and Environment News quotes senior fellow David Wheeler on the World Bank and climate policy.

From the article:

David Wheeler, a former World Bank researcher who now heads the climate change division of the Center for Global Development, said Steer "assembled a leading edge, state-of-the-art team trying to forge the first of many uneasy coordinations" between the bank and the environmental community. Cosmetic change?

"It was very controversial at that point," Wheeler said of the flagship report to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. "It was one long argument, and he was very good at trying to forge a consensus for change," Wheeler said.

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