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New push for debt relief to help developing world fund climate action

1st December 2023

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This Guardian article highlights a notable example of opportunity cost, with the news that developing economies spend twelve times as much servicing their debts as they do tackling climate change.

The most striking example of this is Indonesia which has committed 0.12% of government spending to climate change but 29% to servicing its debts.

And that is why there are increasing calls for loss and damage funds provided by the developed economies for these nations.

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