Pacific staring down ‘twin storms’ of debt and climate disaster

Pacific Island countries experiencing increasingly intense and frequent natural disasters may find themselves drowning in debt as a result of their efforts to build resilience.
A new report released at the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan by Catholic advocacy groups Caritas Oceania, Caritas Australia and Jubilee Australia found Fiji, Samoa and Tonga are already in debt crises and climate finance could create new crises for other nations too.