ONE Campaign urges leaders to seize the opportunity presented by critical New Global Financial Pact Summit
As world leaders gather in Paris to discuss how to accelerate efforts to tackle climate change and poverty, activists from The ONE Campaign are urging them not to waste this critical opportunity.
The Summit for a New Global Financial Pact, hosted by President Emmanuel Macron, aims to accelerate efforts to recover from the global COVID-19 pandemic and tackle some of the most pressing global issues, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, rising poverty and growing food insecurity.
The whole world is affected by these issues but the poorest and most vulnerable countries are paying the highest prices for crises they did the least to cause. Meeting climate commitments is expected to cost African countries USD$2.8 trillion by 2030. This is in addition to the burden of spiralling debts...