The country’s first Green MP, Caroline Lucas, has demonstrated 100% support for WDM’s climate debt campaign.
In a meeting with WDM Brighton & Hove members she said:
“I completely support WDM’s campaign to urge the government to provide sufficient resources as grants, not loans, to developing countries in order to help them adapt to climate change, especially as we in the West are the primary cause of global warming. It is absolutely wrong to saddle developing countries with more debt.”
She also confirmed that she would be taking up the issue with Andrew Mitchell the Development Secretary, as well as asking him why DfID were refusing to pass on the pound coins donated to the UN Climate Adaptation Fund.
