Speech at the Official Launch of the Green Climate Fund Secretariat, Songdo, Korea, December 4, 2013

Kim, Jim Yong

关键词: IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE;    GREENHOUSE;    CARBON FOOTPRINT;    SCIENTISTS;    SCIENTIST;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, called this an extremely important day. Man-made climate change is real and is having a significant impact--an increasing impact. We are convincedthat there is no way that we will be able to end poverty by 2030, without tackling climate change in the most serious manner.He praised the Green Climate Fund as a source of enormousoptimism and hope in the fight against climate change, andsaid the Fund was an "historic opportunity" toprotect future generations.