World Bank: Driving Incomes Up, Carbon Down

Climate One

News Commentary, Social Sciences, Earth Sciences, News, Science

4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2009

⏱️ 66 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

World Bank: Driving Incomes Up, Carbon Down Katherine Sierra, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank Group Awais Khan, Lead, Clean Tech Venture Capital Practice, KPMG Greg Dalton, Founder of Climate One at The Commonwealth Club Are the world’s poor going to get shafted in the clean economy, just as they did in the dirty one? The World Bank is at the center of the great 21st-century challenge of reducing carbon while creating opportunity in emerging economies. When are those priorities in alignment? When do they conflict? How does the World Bank’s efforts relate to private capital and entrepreneurs? This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 28, 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Right, time to get you pet insurance with pet jevity.
0:03.3	Whoa!
0:04.0	Pet Jevity.
0:05.1	You know, like longevity, but for your pets long and healthy life?
0:08.4	They have no upper age limit for dogs or cats.
0:11.1	Meow!
0:11.9	They insure hundreds of thousands of pores and have 24-7 access to vet video calls.
0:17.7	Look for pet jevity wherever you shop online for insurance.
0:21.6	The vet video calls if your pet is in need of urgent medical assistance, contact your local vet immediately.
0:26.6	Visit petjavity.co.uk for full details.
0:29.6	Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton, founder of Climate One.
0:38.2	Climate One brings together thought leaders from around the world
0:41.1	to advance solutions to global warming.
0:44.0	The Commonwealth Club is a non-profit, non-partisan forum open to the public.
0:48.9	Join us online at commonwealthclub.org.
0:55.2	From the Commonwealth Club of California, this is Climate One, a leadership dialogue on energy,
1:00.3	economy, and the environment. I'm Greg Dalton, the founder of Climate One. The World Bank
1:05.1	was founded after World War II to lift the poorest people out of poverty. Today, the World Bank
1:10.0	has a new problem, a new challenge,
1:12.5	raising income and reducing carbon pollution,
1:15.1	or in other words, decoupling economic growth
1:17.2	from the emission of greenhouse gases.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Climate One, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Climate One and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.