Green groups accuse World Bank of "fossil fuel binge"

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Report finds environmental and social safeguards apply to "ever decreasing proportion" of World Bank portfolio

The World Bank is continuing to plough millions of pounds of investment into carbon intensive projects in the developing world, despite pledges to shift its funding towards more sustainable developments....

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