CSOs discussion on climate and debt
May 27, 2021
Eurodad held a CSOs discussion on debt & climate dynamics. It focussed on issue development to better understand the nexus of debt and climate, and identify opportunities for joint action in the following months.
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What issues should be addressed, when it comes to fight debt and climate crisis jointly? See participants' answers here.
The impacts and context of the COVID-19 crisis, coupled with ongoing climate impacts and crippling debt that vulnerable countries face, has brought debt further into the climate policy space and vice-versa.
“Limited to no-capacity to tackle climate change in a fiscally responsible and sustainable manner creates a continuous cycle of i) climate-impacts induced debt, which leads to ii) debt-induced climate vulnerabilities, and repeats. It is crucial to ensure that debt and climate finance dynamics don’t continue to conflate each other” (Eurodad, 2021).
