Financing Smart Development Stéphane HallegatteLisandro MartinValerie Hickey September 29, 2025 This page in: English © 2025 World Bank Group.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/climatechange/financing-smart-development We would like to set the record straight, given the amount of incorrect and inaccurate understanding of how the World Bank Group measures smart development and how it is linked to climate change – including most recently a blog by the Center for Global Development (CGD). © 2025 World Bank Group.