# The International Institute for Environment and Development says countries are being forced to borrow more money to cover costs for a climate crisis they have barely contributed towards. New research shows that the world’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries are spending more to repay debts than they receive in funding to fight climate change. Climate-related disasters have increased by 83-percent in two decades. The institute’s Sejal Patel says poor countries’ debt burdens make it very difficult to deal with increasingly damaging and unpredictable extremes of weather.
Poor countries are paying more to cover debts than they receive to fight the climate crisis