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World Bank President Jim Kim with ministers at World Bank's Annual Meetings.
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Finance Ministers Discuss Climate Change, Green Growth

Financing climate change adaptation, writing green growth fiscal policies, and support for natural capital accounting mechanisms were frequent topics of discussion during the World Bank's 2012 Annual Meetings.
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Highlights
With support from the World Bank,half a million people – covering half the rural population and 70% of herders – now have electricity through affordable and potable solar home systems
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World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development, Rachel Kyte, blogs on the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, a successful environment treaty, that helped save the ozone layer and millions of lives. 
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With examples from Vietnam, David Olivier Treguer blogs about what resilient agriculture could be and how adapatation, productivity, and mitigation should be considered in an integrated manner.
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With technical support from Conservation International and the World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund, a project is being designed to protect 370,032 hectares of rainforest in Madagascar.
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By The Numbers
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 Chart of WBG Low-Carbon Energy Commitments in FY 2010 WBG Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Financing FY2004-10