World Bank 'playing sides of climate crisis'

NEW YORK: A new study released by an independent policy think tank casts further doubts on the World Bank's ability to stay neutral in the global politics of climate change.

"It is making money off of causing the climate crisis and then turning around and claiming to solve it," charged Janet Redman, the study's lead author and a researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies.

In releasing the 79-page report recently, Redman described the World Bank's role in the so-called carbon markets as "dangerously counterproductive" to international efforts to tackle climate change.

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