Jubilee Debt Campaign has found that lower-income countries spend approximately five times more on debt than they spend coping with the effects of climate change and reducing carbon emissions.

Poor nations to spend five times as much on debt as they do against climate change: Report

According to the report by leading anti poverty charity group poor countries spend five times more debt than coping with impact of climate change. The report comes ahead of the COP26 climate summit that is scheduled to take place from 31 October 2021 to 12 November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss about the countries commitment to slow down climate change and keep global warming to 1.

Poorer countries spend five times more on debt than climate crisis – report

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday urged the rich nations to take responsibility for climate change, reduce their carbon emissions and help poor countries to face the challenge.

Rich nations should help poor countries tackle climate change: Imran Khan

African nations have started the COVAX aided vaccination drive as efforts to inoculate the world's poorest nations. COVAX aims to provide 1.3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine to poor countries in the year 2021.

African nations start COVAX-aided vaccination drive

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa called on rich countries for hoarding COVID-19 vaccine doses, to the exclusion of other countries. “Rich countries in the world are holding on to these vaccines and we are saying release the excess vaccines that you’ve ordered and hoarded,” Ramaphosa said.

SA President calls out rich countries for hoarding vaccines

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday called for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccine and debt relief for poor countries to offset the impact of the pandemic.

Pak PM calls for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccine and debt relief for poor countries

The technology giants of the United States evading almost $2.8bn tax a year in developing countries by using the flaws in the global tax rules, said the ActionAid International in a report.

Facebook, Google and Microsoft avoiding $3bn in tax in poorer nations

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