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Strictures that make it almost financially impossible for many global south countries to adapt to or to mitigate climate breakdown. Yet the iron grip these institutions hold both on the global financial architecture and in our psyches mean debt jubilees, loss and damage and reparations remain outliers instead of the crucial solutions they represent.
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