As President Joe Biden urged global cooperation at the United Nations to combat climate change, a coalition of U.S. Catholic organizations is calling on his administration to use debt relief as a means to “unlock critical funding” for countries most vulnerable to the impacts of a rapidly heating world.
The letter campaign, organized by the Catholic Climate Covenant and joined by seven other co-sponsors, asks that the United States forgive or significantly restructure debts it holds with other nations as a central piece of its international climate policy at the upcoming U.N. climate summit, COP28. They argue that such a move “can unlock critical funding to help developing nations meet their goals under the Paris Agreement, adapt to clim…
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