‘Climate Justice Has A Fair Price Tag Of Trillions, Not Billions’

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our era. It tests political will, technological innovation, and also global solidarity. Climate change recognises no borders, but its causes and consequences are not shared equally.

It hits hardest where means are scarce and historic responsibility is minimal. Many of the world’s most vulnerable countries lie between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, a belt that includes India and vast areas of the developing world. Here, public spending and lost revenues due to external disasters can erase years of economic progress.
Intensification of tropical cyclones in the Pacific and Caribbean means some small island and coastal states have lost over 200% of their annual national income in mere hours, as seen with Dominica after Hurricane Maria in 2017.

In resource-constrained nations, such devastation can destroy entire generations’ futures.