Alok Sharma to call on IMF and World Bank to ramp up climate finance

Cecilia Keating
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Alok Sharma opens the COP26 Climate Summit | Credit: UK Government, Flickr
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Alok Sharma opens the COP26 Climate Summit | Credit: UK Government, Flickr

IMF and World Bank's annual meetings are a 'critical moment' to raise climate finance for vulnerable nations, COP26 President warns

COP26 President Alok Sharma will today call on governments and financial institutions to ramp up flows of finance into those nations most vulnerable to climate impacts ahead of the COP27 Climate Summit...

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