Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending. She put forward the Bridgetown Agenda would suspend IMF debt payments for the poorest countries.
At COP27, nations in the Global South have been increasingly focused on securing the means to address the impacts of climate change that are already here.
At COP27, activists will be focused on all the ways developed nations have made it harder for developing nations to survive the climate crisis
The Global South produces 26% more manufactured goods than the North but accounts for 80% less income per capita. The assertion that inequality is due to the lack of development of productive forces in the South thus becomes nonsensical.
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Varoufakis says a history of market liberalization and reliance on cheap Russian gas has left the continent scrambling, in turn pushing up energy costs in the Global South
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