{"id":1153,"date":"2023-02-25T19:34:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2023-04-24T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:47:37","slug":"us-backs-ajay-banga-to-lead-world-bank-in-fight-against-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/02\/25\/us-backs-ajay-banga-to-lead-world-bank-in-fight-against-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The US is backing Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank in the fight against climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The US government has nominated an Indian-American businessman <\/span>Ajay Bangu to head the World Bank, citing his experience in mobilizing funds to combat climate change. President Joe Biden said the former Mastercard executive &quot;has critical experience in mobilizing public-private resources to address the most pressing challenges of our time, including climate change.&quot; Banga is currently an advisor to General Atlantic&#039;s climate fund, BeyondNetZero, has sat on the boards of major corporations such as Dow Chemicals, and worked with US Vice President Kamala Harris on her Central American policy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/4152b600-93fa-345d-a7e6-fecaf4f2cb6f-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/4152b600-93fa-345d-a7e6-fecaf4f2cb6f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/4152b600-93fa-345d-a7e6-fecaf4f2cb6f-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/4152b600-93fa-345d-a7e6-fecaf4f2cb6f-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/4152b600-93fa-345d-a7e6-fecaf4f2cb6f.jpg 1357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has nominated Indian-American businessman Ajay Banga to head the World Bank, citing his experience in mobilizing finance to fight climate change. President Joe Biden said the former Mastercard CEO \u201ehas critical experience in mobilizing public-private resources to address the most pressing challenges of our time, including climate change.\u201c Banga is currently an advisor [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}