The impacts of the escalating climate crisis are already “completely changing” the nature of poverty in developing countries, Patrick Watt, the CEO of NGO Christian Aid, has told The Independent in a new interview – in which he also warned that much more needs to be done to tackle developing country debt to help countries fund their climate responses.
Last year, Christian Aid spent just shy of £80m on aid projects across some 29 countries around the world, with a large chunk of that money coming from a network of more than 4,500 churches across the UK. Those projects directly helped improve the lives of some 4.1m people directly and some 12.4m people indirectly.
