From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Alden Meyer, a senior consultant at E3G, an independent climate ...

IN ONE OF his final acts of global engagement, Pope Francis convened a Jubilee Commission of experts—including ourselves and other leading experts in debt and development—at the Vatican to address a ...

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Negotiators at a global climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, struck a last-minute deal for wealthy countries to help their poorer neighbors deal with global warming, saving ...

At around 3 am on Sunday morning, in a drained plenary, the gavel slammed to bring COP29 to a close. Coming at the end of a convulsive final day in Baku, Azerbaijan, the conclusion of the Conference ...

The world agreed to a new climate deal at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Saturday, with wealthy countries pledging to provide $300 billion annually by 2035 to poorer countries to help them cope with the ...

At the U.N. climate talks in Azerbaijan, negotiators struck a deal at the last moment. Wealthy nations pledged $300 billion a year by 2035 to help developing countries deal with the impacts of climate ...

Efforts to meet the ambitious target of conserving at least 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 have fallen short. But a new mechanism will provide developing countries with the financing to fast-track ...

NATION STATE ATTACKS. AND THE UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE ENDED SATURDAY WITH A NEW FINANCIAL AGREEMENT TO HELP DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. WEALTHY COUNTRIES PLEDGED TO SPEND $300 BILLION ...

WASHINGTON, December 3, 2025—Developing countries paid out $741 billion more in principal and interest on their external debt than they received in new financing between 2022 and 2024—the largest gap ...