Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.