Fadhel Kaboub, Author at This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/author/fadhelkaboub1/ Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:36:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-512x512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Fadhel Kaboub, Author at This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/author/fadhelkaboub1/ 32 32 67616479 Climate finance for the Global North and climate reparations for the Global South https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/climate-finance-for-the-global-north-and-climate-reparations-for-the-global-south/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/climate-finance-for-the-global-north-and-climate-reparations-for-the-global-south/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:36:19 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573465 The World Bank and the IMF are getting climate finance completely backwards, lending money to the wrong countries and imposing austerity on the wrong countries. Instead of imposing austerity on the Global South, the WB-IMF should be asking the historic polluters to tighten their belts, reduce their energy use, reduce waste, eliminate planned obsolescence , and fight consumerism under a coherent and comprehensive degrowth framework.

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