The concepts of climate debt and ecological debt are central to successfully achieving the ecological bifurcation. The ecological debt owed by States – and in particular the wealthiest States and ...

As global climate talks continue in Baku, Azerbaijan, and world leaders ponder how best to reduce global warming, we hope President-elect Donald Trump will seriously consider what has long been an ...

Former Gabonese President Ali Bongo, one of a handful of African leaders overthrown this year. Gabon's regime change came after it had signed a debt-for-climate swap deal based on progressive ESG ...

Debt can be a major hurdle for developing countries trying to prepare for climate impacts. Some are experimenting with a new tool: swapping their debt for acting on climate change. International ...

As deadly storms rip through the Caribbean, a new United Nations report delivers a sobering warning: the world is failing to prepare for the climate it has already created. UNEP’s Adaptation Gap ...

Small island developing countries are increasingly becoming locked into a cycle of environmental disasters and compounding debt burdens, making them less capable of investing in climate resilient ...

A new U.N. report sheds light on how climate change is driving some climate-vulnerable nations deeper into debt, locking them into unsustainable cycles of economic crisis and hampering their ...

Cape Verde, a volcanic archipelago off the west coast of Africa, is not in fact a cape, and only in the rainy season is it particularly green. It is vulnerable to rising sea levels, acidifying oceans ...

Imagine you borrow $1 million from me, and then I burn down your house and steal your car so you can’t drive to work anymore. But then I offer you a one-year moratorium on debt payments to try to get ...

SIR: Climate change is a global crisis that transcends borders, affecting countries in various ways. Nigeria with a diverse ecosystem and a large population, the impacts of climate change are becoming ...

During a trial in a court of law, the person responsible for an infraction or a crime is generally sentenced to pay damages. In a sense this means paying reparations in compensation for the ...