World Bank’s Kim Raises Sandy as G-20 Ignores Climate
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Superstorm Sandy and the risk of more disasters sparked by climate change barely featured at a Group of 20 summit. Then World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim brought it up.
Addressing finance officials from the world’s leading economies days after the storm, Kim noted how media reports always write about once-in-a-lifetime natural disasters, according to an account of the closed-door meetings by Italian Finance Minister Vittorio Grilli. Yet in the last decade, there have been so many of them -- including 2005’s Hurricane Katrina -- the lifetime is getting short, he said.