The statement was cosigned by the Anglican Communion, Franciscans International, and Lutheran World Federation.
Adenekan, currently a student at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, is conducting research with the WCC’s Living Planet Programme on the intersection of climate and debt in Nigeria and the role of churches as a contribution to the WCC’s Turn Debt into Hope Campaign.
“Many of these countries are spending more on servicing debt than on lifesaving public services and responding to the climate emergency,” Adenekan stated in his address to the UN Human Rights Council. “In other words, obligations to repay debt are preventing governments from meeting people’s rights to health, education, and a clean environment.”
He explained how…
