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A bombshell report has indicated the World Bank’s management of green funds is in disarray, with up to £31 billion from donor countries such as Britain said to be missing. The sum represents almost 40 per cent of all climate change funds handed out by the World Bank over the last seven years. The damming report, an audit conducted by Oxfam of the World Bank’s 2017-2023 climate finance portfolio, could not find any public records showing where the money went or how it was used. Chiara Liguori, Oxfam GB’s Senior Climate Justice Policy Advisor, said: “Not tracking how or where the money gets spen…

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