The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development publishes a thematic note on the remission of the ecological debt, as a goal from which to start in this year of jubilee hope.

The document explains how financial and ecological debt today represent two sides of the same coin. While developing countries today are saddled with an economic debt that has far-reaching roots and that the pandemic has only aggravated, they are also suffering the most serious consequences of the climate crisis, even though they are not among the main contributors.

Read the thematic note here: