France will keep pressing the World Bank to maintain its climate finance agenda despite the Trump administration’s pressure on the global lender to abandon it, the new French development minister Eleonore Caroit said on Friday.

Efforts to address climate change also will feature heavily in France’s presidency of the Group of Seven industrial democracies in 2026, Caroit told reporters on the sidelines of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Washington.

She was appointed on Sunday to the cabinet of newly reappointed French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu as junior minister for Francophonie, international partnerships and French people abroad, and rushed straight to Washington.

Caroit said she discussed with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent the U.S. call for t

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