UK facing calls at Commonwealth summit to pay billons for role in climate crisis

King Charles and Keir Starmer in London last week. They are expected to resist discussions on slavery reparations at the summit. Photograph: Lucy North/Reuters

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.