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Britain faces growing calls at this week’s Commonwealth summit to pay billions of pounds in reparations to poorer countries for causing climate change as well as slavery.

The leaders of some of the nations at most risk from the effects of climate change plan to use the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa to lobby for reparative justice from the UK and other wealthy countries that are among the biggest polluters.

Philip Davis, the prime minister of the Bahamas, told the Observer that his country needed help from the UK and others to pay for damage caused by extreme weather events and to help save it from the worst effects of rising sea levels.

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[-] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I doubt they have billions, Johnson, Sunak and their cronies looted the coffers.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They don't have billions, they don't even have millions, the Tories fucked that country back to the stone age and we should pay them for the pleasure of the entertainment of watching them flail wildly in confusion.

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