Sydney Morning Herald: LONDON: Record sums were invested last year in coal power – the most carbon-intensive form of energy on the planet – by the World Bank, despite international commitments to slash the carbon emissions blamed for climate change. The World Bank said this week that $US3.4 billion ($3.6 billion) – or a quarter of all funding for energy projects – was spent in the year to June helping to build new coal-fired power stations, including the controversial Medupi plant in South Africa. Over the …