United Nations climate change conference COP29 opens in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 11, 2024. (Photo: VNA/Reuters)

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva told a panel during the United Nations’ COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan that the institution had worked with Trump during his previous term and looked forward to doing so again.

Ajay Banga, president of the World Bank, said Trump’s victory highlighted the need for the bank to become more efficient and effective, while encouraging increasing private investment in climate finance. Ajay Banga mentioned that he would talk to Trump, as he had done with the new leaders of the bank’s four other biggest donors - Germany, France, Japan and Britain.