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IMF Chief Downplays Climate Work After Bessent Criticism

Bloomberg · last updated

The head of the International Monetary Fund downplayed its work related to climate change after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for the lender to return to its core focus as economic stabilizer.

“People think we have climate experts, we don’t. That’s not our job,” Kristalina Georgieva said in a press conference on Thursday during the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank.

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