New York Times: Ask Andrew Steer, the World Bank’s new climate change envoy, what he thinks of his institution’s controversial recent decision to help build the world’s fourth-dirtiest coal plant in South Africa, and he hedges. “My job is not to give a personal opinion on things,” Steer finally says. His thoughts on a sensitive proposal to calculate the environmental and social costs of carbon emissions in all new project assessments? That’s for World Bank shareholders to decide, Steer maintains. And to …