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World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim remarks at Davos, press conference

Jim Yong Kim
23 Jan 2014-pp 1-4

TL;DR: Kim as discussed by the authors discussed on the future economies to invest in clean and healthy that will bring growth, jobs, and competitiveness and challenged the notion that responding to climate change is not affordable.

Abstract: This report discusses the remarks delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank. Press Conference at the World Economic Forum of the taking action on climate change. He was grateful to the organizer who conducted this conference to given this opportunity to meet collective leadership. He discusses on the future economies to invest in clean and healthy that will bring growth, jobs, and competitiveness. The 1.9 trillion dollars in subsidies can be redirected to support investment in clean growth. This challenges the notion that responding to climate change is not affordable. He concludes by saying that we lead to the new technologies and we can bring in the virtuous circle that we have all been waiting for.

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