World Bank Head Warns of Post-Paris Lull; Clean Energy Policies, Carbon Price Needed

摘要

World leaders and ministers may be poised to take a victory lap of sorts at the April 22 New York signing of the 2015 Paris climate pact, but the head of the World Bank essentially warned nations April 14 against too much self-congratulation. While there was plenty of "intensity and pressure" on the nearly 200 nations that agreed to the Paris accord in December to get a deal, "there really was a sense that once you did this, then the pressure would be off," said Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group.