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About Debt for Climate

Debt for Climate is a global grassroots movement of movements, initiated by the Global South from an anti-colonial perspective. The goal is to cancel the illegitimate financial debt of the Global South to stop exploitation and extractivism, enabling self-determined, just transitions. Visit their website here.

Decolonisation • 17.11.2025

Debt as colonialism: the Debt for Climate movement at COP30

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By: The degrowth.info editorial team, Debt for Climate

Debt for Climate went to the COP30 to carry a specific, tangible proposal with the potential to address systemic change: debt cancellation. Considered a degrowth-leaning policy, this proposal refers to the partial or total deletion of debt contracted by a government. Read the interview.