'Toxic relationship': Debt and climate impacts undermining vulnerable countries ability to fund decarbonisation

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ActionAid warns debt repayments are blocking climate action, leaving the most climate-vulnerable countries exposed to escalating risks

Countries on the front line of the climate crisis are spending nearly 25 times more on debt repayments than on climate action, leaving communities "dangerously exposed" to worsening floods, droughts, heat...

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