World Bank Announces End of Financing of Upstream Oil and Gas
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – At the One Planet Summit in Paris today, the World Bank announced that it will end financing for upstream oil and gas after 2019. This marks a precedent-setting shift for the world’s best-known development finance institution. For decades, the World Bank has been a major financier of oil and gas extraction and …