The World - News from Sept. 12, 1989

The World Bank announced plans to increase lending to population-control projects and forestry to help combat global atmospheric warming. President Barber Conable told a Tokyo conference on the environment that the bank will triple its lending to forestry “in the next few years” and is forming a unit to promote use of natural gas because it is the least polluting of fossil fuels. Use of fossil fuels and destruction of tropical forests by development projects are believed to be factors in the so-called greenhouse effect of atmospheric warming.