Published: May 23rd, 2024,
Last updated: May 30th, 2025

Wealthy countries have granted at least 18 billion US dollars (16.6 billion euros) in loans at market interest rates to developing countries for climate finance. This is according to a new report by Reuters and Big Local News, a journalism program at Stanford University. The report states that this is not the norm in climate finance, which usually has low or no interest rates.