44 Quotes by Jim Yong Kim

We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn't happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

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.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

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

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an education, become a hyphenated American and become president of the World Bank, it's my moral duty to make sure that every single person on the planet has that opportunity.

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.