KIM: Commitment to fight pollution 'admirable'

As a World Bank president trained in the sciences, Jim Yong Kim feels it is his role to tackle some issues related to the global public good, particularly climate change.

Roughly 70 percent of the work that the World Bank does with China is related to climate change and sustainability, ranging from energy efficiency to the development of carbon trading, Kim said.

"One of the things that most people in the world don't realize is that China has made a huge commitment in terms of reducing its carbon intensity," he said.