The World Bank, embarking on a comprehensive overhaul of its lending practices, faces a tough question: How should it use its limited resources to fund climate projects while still helping the world’s poor? 

The bank’s wealthy member countries are reluctant to add more to its coffers. But they are also demanding that it

lend more money to programs that would fight climate change. 

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