Jubilee Scotland and our partner organisations Global Justice Now and Christian Aid are calling on private banks with links to Scotland to offer debt cancellation to all countries that need it. In 2020 public debt increased in 108 developing countries, as the pandemic shut down their economies and … [...]
Jubilee Scotland and Global Justice Now to protest outside Edinburgh banks
Zambia’s debt payments to private banks will render Scotland’s aid funding to the country “virtually insignificant”, campaigners warn, as they prepare to protest outside debt-holding banks in Edinburgh… read more here.
A call to the scottish government to speak up about climate debt!
Ahead of COP 26, we are calling on the Scottish Government to speak up on the issue of climate debt, and to push other governments and private lenders to agree a green recovery plan. Read our briefing for MSPs here.
Scotland Against Climate Debt
Climate Debt concerns the moral debt between developed countries and the countries and communities that suffer the most from climate change. The ongoing global pandemic has only exacerbated this divide and inundated those already debt-stressed countries with more loans. While the World Bank and … [...]