The climate debt crisis: why paying our dues is essential for tackling climate change

This report explains the concept of 'climate debt', and explores how redressing the balance between international 'debtors' and 'creditors' is an essential prerequisite for effective global action to combat both climate change and poverty. It seeks to demonstrate why current attempts to deal with global inequalities in emissions through carbon trading and offsetting are fatally flawed, and sets out concrete proposals to finance climate debt repayments.