The World Bank is currently consulting on a new energy strategy, due to be finalised in early 2011…The mission of the World Bank Group (WBG)...is to fight poverty. If the Bank only absorbs one message in its energy strategy consultation, then it should be this: it must develop a direct and steely focus on its mission in its approach to energy, and the linked issue of climate change...In its energy strategy, the WBG must start from a deep analysis of the need for energy by the poor, and the role the Bank can play in addressing that need.