What is The World Bank(or its subsidaries) doing to address environmetal issues in the world?

Question

What is The World Bank(or its subsidaries) doing to address environmetal issues in the world?

Answer 1

That's not their primary reason for existence, or even secondary.  Anything they do to help the environment might be as relevant as anything the space agency does to help fish ride a bicycle.

Their mission is to loan money to be used wisely to help various poor countries make what are perceived as improvements ... both by the people in charge of the poor countries, whose main interest might be to line the deep pockets of their Swiss bank accounts, ... and also by the people providing the capital to the World Bank who are limited by their altruistic interest in doing more business in those poor countries, and their own ignorance in many matters.

Look at what the elimination of wet lands has done to America ... more damage from hurricanes, rapid growth of wild fires all over the continent.  Now the people who are in charge of that are running the World Bank, so if they have anything to say about the environment around the world, you'll see same kinds of foolishness other places.

Answer 2

The world bank deals with poverty....

Answer 3

Nothing - it's not a part of what they do - they are about finances and international trade

Answer 4

It does very little but one should not expext it to. As one answer states they are a bank and as such are part of the leviathan economic system that has created the ecological problems, its job is not to solve them, that's your job. Use the ballot box and vote 'green'.

Answer 5

Beats me.  Why should environmental issues concern a bank?

Answer 6

.They aren't doing anything actually, and that's because they're mission is to "fight world poverty." Whether that actually happens is a different story. They only have a budget of about $20 million per year and rely solely on the payments of nations to fund they're projects. Unfortunately the environment isn't on the "to do" list of the world bank.

Although this organization is called a "bank." Countries are only given loans to fund projects to combat poverty

Answer 7

Nothing! A bank deals with finances not the enviroment!