By Frederick Carle on January 24th, 2009
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By Frederick Carle on April 10th, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Climate change is now one of the World Bank’s top concerns because of its expected impact on health and economic growth in developing countries, the bank’s lead environmental economist said.
Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are where global warming’s damage will disproportionately be felt, and that makes it a key issue for the World Bank and other financial institutions aiming to foster development, said Kirk Hamilton, co-author of the Global Monitoring Report.
The environmental damage is happening now in the world’s poorest places and is likely to be exacerbated as the planet warms, with strong consequences as soon as 2020, Hamilton said in a telephone interview.