To stabilize warming at less than two degrees Celsius, as the international community agreed in 2009, the world will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero before 2100. Economic policy will be the key to mobilizing that global response, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in speech on December 8, 2014, to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., that outlined steps ahead.
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2014/12/08
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Brief
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166596
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1
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1
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2021/12/03
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Disclosed
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Doc Name
Transforming the Economy to Achieve Zero Net Emissions
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Transforming the Economy to Achieve Zero Net Emissions (English). Feature Story Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/867801638518502844/Transforming-the-Economy-to-Achieve-Zero-Net-Emissions