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The World Bank will stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction from 2019, Jim Yong Kim announced Tuesday at a climate summit seeking to boost the global economy's shift to clean energy. SOUNDBITE
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée on Tuesday, as world leaders gathered in Paris to talk about climate finance, two years to the day since the Paris agreement. IMAGES
President of World Bank Ajay Banga, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and US President Joe Biden pose for photos before a meeting. IMAGES
Abidjan, Jul 15 (EFE/EPA).- Ivory Coast hosted Thursday a high-level meeting in collaboration with the World Bank on the 20th replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA-20).The event is attended by several African heads of state. (Camera: LEGNAN KOULA). B-ROLL OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION SUMMIT IN ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST.
Washington (USA), Feb. 14 (EFE / EPA) .- Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno met with World Bank President David Malpass in Washington in an official visit to the US, Moreno is the first Ecuadorian president to be received at the White House, in 17 years.(CAMERA: Armando Ayala) FOOTAGE OF THE MEETING.
US President Donald Trump meets his Vietnamese counterpart and Nguyen Phu Trong ahead of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi. IMAGES