Brett Meiselas

I've not heard anybody speak about it.

And that's it.

This week, starting today, 189 countries are in Washington, D.C.

for the IMF and World Bank spring meetings.

And the delegates at these meetings have been told quietly not to even bring up climate change because they don't want to trigger Donald Trump or the United States.

So they're at this major global finance summit in Washington, D.C., super important.

And the White House is essentially forcing them to either pick a fight with the United States or shut up about climate change.

And they are being forced right now to like sneak any sort of clean energy priorities through the back door.

And so like, what do I even mean by a sneak climate priorities through the back door?

Well, Lord Stern, a former World Bank chief economist, laid it out.

You basically you fund the metro systems in overcrowded cities.

You invest in agriculture, forest, water, infrastructure, public transport.

You do all of these things, but you make sure that you don't use the word climate or you don't use the word green energy or clean energy or anything like that.

because all these things help the climate, but they don't want to upset little fragile Donald in the Oval Office and have any money go away from all of this.

So the strategy is like, OK, we're going to try to do the right thing, but let's not say the quiet part loud.

We don't want to trigger the White House.

Just keep your head down.

Hope the money keeps flowing.

And this is just another part of the insanity.

We're talking about the World Bank, the single biggest source of climate funding on the planet.