IT'S TIME TO SETTLE THE DEBT

Countries doing the least to cause the climate crisis live its worst impacts, and those are only becoming more frequent and extreme. The biggest polluting nations need to share this burden and pay up for the loss and damage they are directly responsible for. Settling this debt helps to right the world’s fastest growing injustice.

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IT'S TIME TO SETTLE THE DEBT

Countries doing the least to cause the climate crisis live its worst impacts, and those are only becoming more frequent and extreme. The biggest carbon polluters need to share this burden and pay up for the loss and damage they are directly responsible for. Settling this debt helps to right the world’s fastest growing injustice.

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Millions of people are suffering from the devastating impacts of climate change. Add your name to our handraiser and demand that the biggest polluting nations share this burden and pay up.

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The Climate Vulnerable Forum and the V20 are calling for international funding and solutions for Loss and Damage to right this wrong.

People everywhere are feeling the heat and dangers of the global climate crisis.

For poor and vulnerable nations across the globe, climate catastrophe is becoming a permanent reality. Communities on the front lines experience the same increasing number of unprecedented extreme weather events seen globally.

But the world’s most vulnerable communities have the least means to handle and rebound from climate disasters.

Recovery must be financed almost entirely out of the pockets of those hardest hit and least responsible for the climate emergency.

The global climate emergency has reached a point where dedicated funding needs to be made available in solidarity with victims least responsible for the fallout impacts of the climate emergency, and least equipped to withstand it.

The world’s richest and most polluting countries – especially the G20 nations – have a debt to settle. They are the biggest contributors to the climate crisis. They are also most responsible for the slow and weak global response to keeping climate chaos in check. You can help by getting behind the cause, sharing experiences and solutions on loss and damage, and asking for urgent action.

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Download our digital toolkit with our key messages in texts and shareable social assets to help raise awareness of loss and damage experienced by frontline communities, and support our call for financial support for Loss and Damage.

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Why is this needed?

The injustice felt by those on the front lines is made far worse by rich nations’ not paying up for the loss and damage caused by their carbon emissions. There is no dedicated international funding to tackle the loss and damage inflicted on most vulnerable communities by the climate crisis. When polluters pay up, frontline communities have a chance to bounce back and lives can be rebuilt. When you post and share solutions online, you enrich the global conversation on loss and damage, helping us to build the case for action.

We can’t let the biggest polluters keep dragging their feet. It’s time to settle the debt.

For more information on how to get involved, write to us: [email protected]

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EU agrees to climate damage fund, energizing bogged-down COP27 talks | Reuters

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Climate negotiators on Friday were mulling a European Union proposal aimed at resolving an impasse over financing for countries hit by climate-fuelled disasters and pushing the U.N. climate summit in Egypt closer to a final deal.
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Notes from COP27: Climate-vulnerable nations want more than ‘loss and damage’ – they want prosperity | Replanet – mention CPPs

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Vulnerable nations want climate reparations from rich countries like US | ChinaDaily

A coalition of low-income countries called on rich nations to pay for climate damages, since wealthier nations such as the US have been the biggest emitters of greenhouse gasses, said US National Public Radio on Monday.
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At COP27, climate ‘loss and damage’ funding makes it on the table | Reuters

Local resident Tarusila Boseiwaqa walks along a sea wall that no longer protects homes from the intrusion of water at higher tides, as a rainbow forms over Serua Village, Fiji, July 14, 2022. As the community runs out of ways to adapt to the rising Pacific Ocean, the 80 villagers face the painful decision whether to move. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
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COP27 Kicks Off With Deal to Discuss Compensating Poor Nations for Global Warming | Insurance Journal

Delegates from nearly 200 countries kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to global warming, placing the controversial topic on the agenda for the first time since climate talks began decades ago.
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