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Climate finance: How much money flows at high interest rates

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

Überflutungen infolge von Starkregen in West Java, Indonesia im Januar 2024
Flooding in West Java, Indonesia in January 2024: Poorer countries are more affected but less responsible for climate damage.

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.

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