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World Bank to stop financing oil, gas projects from 2019

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The World Bank will stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction from 2019, Jim Yong Kim announced Tuesday at a climate summit seeking to boost the global economy's shift to clean energy. SOUNDBITE

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