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Global activists demand debt cancellation to address climate emergency
People march holding a banner with a message that reads in Spanish; "Environmental justice is social justice" during a global climate strike demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 24, 2021.

ACTIVISTS from across the world called today for the cancellation of debts of developing countries to address the climate crisis in a campaign aimed at uniting labour and social movements.

Debt for Climate campaigners will mobilise globally to demand an immediate end of all global South debts to pave the way for a real response to the climate emergency.

Launching the campaign, Ecoleaks founder and activist Esteban Servat said that, amid a lack of action from world leaders, the climate movement needs to take the worsening climate crisis “into our own hands.”

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