The plan - which follows the landmark UN climate conference that yielded the Paris Agreement in December - calls for funding projects that would add 30 gigawatts of renewable energy to the global grid, which would power 150 million homes with renewable energy by 2020, the bank said in a statement. It also proposes "climate-smart" agriculture investment for at least 40 countries, and bringing early warning systems to 100 million people.

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