We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

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

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

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

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.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.