Why the World Bank is Part of the Solution to Climate Change

Bart Édes
4 min readNov 5, 2021
Photo by Li-An Lim on Unsplash

In a recent opinion piece published in The Guardian, World Bank Group researcher Jake Hess shared a laundry list of complaints about his employer, including the charge that it is failing in its response to climate change. I don’t know Mr. Hess, and have never been employed by the World Bank Group, but I have spent the better part of the past two decades working in international…

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Bart Édes

Author of Learning from Tomorrow: Using Strategic Foresight to Prepare for the Next Big Disruption