{"id":2384255,"date":"2024-12-28T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-scam-unraveling-world-bank-really-doesnt-know-where-41-billion-in-funding-goes\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T13:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T18:56:37","slug":"climate-scam-unraveling-world-bank-really-doesnt-know-where-41-billion-in-funding-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-scam-unraveling-world-bank-really-doesnt-know-where-41-billion-in-funding-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Scam Unraveling: World Bank Really Doesn&#8217;t Know Where $41 Billion in Funding Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclimate-scam-unraveling-world-bank-really-doesnt-know-where-41-billion-in-funding-goes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2384255&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2062article discusses \u200da \u2063recent Oxfam report that questioned the clarity and accuracy of the World Bank&#8217;s climate \u200cfinance reporting. A claim \u200cwent viral on\u200d social media, suggesting\u200c that $41 billion had &#8220;gone missing&#8221; from\u2062 the World Bank\u2019s climate spending. \u2064However,\u2062 the \u200dAustralian Associated Press fact-checked this assertion, \u200bclarifying that\u2064 the Oxfam report did not imply funds are missing but highlighted notable discrepancies in how expenditures are\u2064 reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Oxfam report indicates that actual spending\u200d on World Bank climate projects often differs \u2064from \u2062initially budgeted amounts, \u2064with \u200bvariances ranging from 26%\u2062 to \u206343%, resulting in an \u2062overall discrepancy of between $24.28\u2064 billion and $41.32 \u2062billion from 2017 to 2023. The report emphasizes\u200d a lack of transparency in the reporting process, making it \u2064hard to \u2063assess the actual effectiveness and impact of the Bank&#8217;s \u200dclimate initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Despite World Bank President Ajay \u2063Banga&#8217;s focus on \u2064increasing \u2064funding \u2063for climate \u2062projects, Oxfam stresses that the\u200b issues with accountability and clarity in\u200b reporting \u2063need urgent attention. The distinction between \u2064&#8221;missing&#8221; funds and\u200c unaccounted expenditures is crucial,as it relates to the trust and integrity of climate finance contributions,notably significant \u2064given the\u200d U.S. plays a major\u200c role in funding\u200b the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>the article underscores the importance of accurate\u200d reporting\u200b and transparency in\u200c climate financing to maintain public trust \u200cand\u2064 ensure effective \u200caction\u200c against\u2062 climate change.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ah, fact-checking. Where would we be without it?<\/p>\n<p>Take, for instance, a recent story that made the rounds on social media. According to these reports, Oxfam &mdash; the British NGO &mdash; found that a huge chunk of the World Bank&rsquo;s spending on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackrocks-push-for-esg-faltering-due-to-massive-pushback\/\" title=\"BlackRock&#039;s ESG push faces strong resistance.\">climate change-related issues<\/a> was &ldquo;missing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thank heavens for fact-checkers like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aap.com.au\/factcheck\/charity-report-did-not-find-world-bank-climate-change-fund-was-missing-41-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Associated Press<\/a> &mdash; a Poynter Institute-accredited fact-checker from down under &mdash; which set us all straight: &ldquo;An Oxfam report did not find that $US41 billion has gone &lsquo;missing&rsquo;&nbsp; from the World Bank&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressives-outline-their-demands-for-dems-reconciliation-infrastructure-bill\/\" title=\"Progressives Outline Their Demands For Dems\u2019 Reconciliation Infrastructure Bill\">climate change fund<\/a>, contrary to claims online.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>What a relief. Instead, the AAP noted, the Oxfam report found that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/world-bank-president-refuses-answer-gotcha-question-climate-change-now-biden-admin-replace-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Bank<\/a> just doesn&rsquo;t really know where the money went.<\/p>\n<p>See? Totally different!<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The controversy centers around an Oct. 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com\/bitstream\/handle\/10546\/621658\/bp-climate-finance-unchecked-241017-en.pdf?sequence=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> titled &ldquo;Climate Finance Unchecked: How much does the World Bank know about the climate actions it claims?&rdquo; Answer: not as much as it probably should.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are front-loaded in a TL;DR on page two of the 33-page report, in case you&rsquo;re not interested in reading the whole thing through: &ldquo;Oxfam finds that for World Bank projects, many things can change during implementation. On average, actual expenditures on the Bank&rsquo;s projects differ from budgeted amounts by 26&ndash;43% above or below the claimed climate finance. Across the entire climate finance portfolio, between 2017 and 2023, this difference amounts to US$24.28&ndash;US$41.32 billion,&rdquo; the report states.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No information is available about what new climate actions were supported and which planned actions were cut. Now that the Bank has touted its focus on understanding and reporting on the impacts of its climate finance, it is critical to stress that without a full understanding of how much of what the Bank claims as climate finance at the project approval stage becomes actual expenditure, it is impossible to track and measure the impacts of the Bank&rsquo;s climate co-benefits in practice.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-pledges-global-climate-fund-reach-11-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxfam<\/a> report stated &ldquo;generous accounting practices by different countries and providers, combined with the lack of transparency and consistency in how climate finance is defined, calculated, and reported, is at the root of the crisis of trust in climate finance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icij.org\/news\/2024\/11\/oxfam-says-41-billion-of-the-world-banks-climate-spending-effectively-unaccounted-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Consortium of Investigative Journalists<\/a> pointed out in a November summation of Oxfam&rsquo;s findings, this is sort of a big deal when you consider how the World Bank is in the process, more or less, of turning itself into the Global Climate Change Savings &amp; Loan.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In recent years, the World Bank has touted its spending on climate finance and its plans to dramatically expand it,&rdquo; the ICIJ noted.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;World Bank President Ajay Banga said in December that the bank had met its goal to devote 35% of its financing to climate three years ahead of schedule and set a new target of 45% by 2025. That goal is well within reach; the bank announced in September that its climate finance investments reached 44% of total financing, or $42.6 billion, over the past fiscal year. &lsquo;We&rsquo;re putting our ambition in overdrive,&rsquo; Banga said.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The report underscored that there&rsquo;s a huge difference between the World Bank&rsquo;s ambition and the world bank&rsquo;s accounting processes, however, and one that needs to be addressed. But both Oxfam and the AAP fact-checking team wanted to you to be sure that the NGO &ldquo;was not alleging any mismanagement of funds due to corruption or waste; it was concerned about the World Bank&rsquo;s reporting process for deviations in planned and actual climate finance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This distinction is significant,&rdquo; a spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-charity-watchdog-condemns-oxfam-for-haiti-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxfam<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oxfam&rsquo;s report doesn&rsquo;t suggest funds are missing but points to a transparency issue that makes it difficult to know precisely what the Bank is delivering in terms of climate finance: where it&rsquo;s going and what it&rsquo;s supporting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, well, excuse us for sounding like negative Nancys, but this sounds a bit like one of those cheerful bosses who describes a major organizational setback as an &ldquo;opportunity for breakthrough improvement.&rdquo; Indeed it might b, on some level, but a Panglossian refusal to acknowledge the bedrock realities of the situation that accompanies it becomes downright hilarious &mdash; unless you&rsquo;re on the hook for it, of course.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&rsquo;re an American, you are! According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/IF\/IF11361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressional Research Service<\/a> report, the U.S. contributes over 16 percent of the World Bank&rsquo;s total capital through its financial commitments, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asian-american-groups-warn-biden-and-trump-they-could-swing-an-election\/\" title=\"Asian American organizations caution Biden and Trump about their potential to influence election outcomes\">significant voting power<\/a> on all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/about\/leadership\/votingpowers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Bank organizations<\/a> that provide climate change funding.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this may be a drop in the bucket in terms of your tax dollars, and yes, there are bigger climate hustles bureaucrats have spent your cash on (hey, whatever happened to that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">promising green energy start-<\/a>up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/former-obama-advisor-gives-democrats-sobering-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solyndra<\/a>?), but the difference between &ldquo;a transparency issue that makes it difficult to know precisely what the Bank is delivering in terms of climate finance&rdquo; and &ldquo;missing&rdquo; sounds an awful lot like the difference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_aGbdni7QNs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">between<\/a> &ldquo;I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ajJMQG4Bmxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and<\/a> &ldquo;Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate; in fact, it was wrong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, when it comes to virtually any other institutional spending issue, using the word &ldquo;missing&rdquo; to refer to something being lost or something being unaccounted for would be a distinction without a difference. Here, it&rsquo;s unspoken&nbsp;<em>why<\/em> it&rsquo;s problematic and why fact-checkers are taking issue with it: When it comes to spending on issues related to climate change and green energy, there are Good Guys and there are Bad Guys.<\/p>\n<p>The Good Guys say this is merely an accounting quibble, the Bad Guys say that this means at least $24 billion and up to $41 billion of World Bank funds are somewhere in the ether of global finance thanks to variances in accounting practices that charitably be described as curious.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it&rsquo;s not, &ldquo;contrary to claims online,&rdquo; missing. It&rsquo;s just not accounted for! At this point, I&rsquo;m not sure which is the bigger racket: dubious national or supranational funding of projects that fall loosely under the aegis of purported climate change mitigation, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/snopes-smoked-trying-spin-bidens-backwards-hard-hat-fake-news-forced-re-rate-true\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-checking<\/a>. 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Consider a recent story circulating on social media claiming that Oxfam, the British NGO, discovered a significant portion of the World Bank&#8217;s climate change spending was &#8220;missing.&#8221; Fortunately, fact-checkers from the Australian Associated Press clarified that Oxfam did not assert that $41 billion had gone &#8220;missing&#8221; from the World Bank\u2019s climate fund. Instead, they indicated that the World Bank lacks clarity on where its funds have been allocated.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy stems from an October 2024 report titled \u201cClimate Finance Unchecked: How much does the World Bank know about its claimed climate actions?\u201d The report reveals that actual expenditures for World Bank projects often deviate by 26-43% from budgeted amounts. Between 2017 and 2023, this discrepancy could total between $24.28 billion and $41.32 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Oxfam highlighted issues with transparency in how different countries account for climate finance and how it is defined and reported. This lack of clarity contributes to a crisis of trust regarding climate finance.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), this is particularly concerning given that the World Bank aims to significantly increase its climate financing efforts. While they have made ambitious claims about their spending goals\u2014such as reaching 44% of total financing for climate initiatives\u2014the report emphasizes a gap between ambition and actual accounting practices.<\/p>\n<p>Both Oxfam and AAP stressed that there are no allegations of mismanagement or corruption; rather, they are focused on transparency in reporting deviations in planned versus actual funding for climate projects. An Oxfam spokesperson pointed out this distinction is crucial because it highlights transparency issues rather than suggesting funds are outright missing.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, while some may view these discrepancies as mere accounting issues, others see them as indicative of larger problems within global financial practices related to environmental initiatives\u2014raising questions about accountability in how taxpayer money is utilized for such purposes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2384256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Picture-75.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[47520,47518,33643,6513,47519],"class_list":["post-2384255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-climate-finance","tag-climate-scam","tag-financial-transparency","tag-funding","tag-world-bank"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Picture-75.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384259,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384255\/revisions\/2384259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}