Braving the sweltering heat, activists marched through Seville in southern Spain on Sunday, demanding debt cancellation, climate justice, and higher taxes on the super-rich, ahead of a UN summit on financing development that critics argue lacks ambition and substance.
The four-day meeting – held once every decade – promises to take on poverty, disease and climate change by mapping out the global framework for development. But the United States’ decision to pull out and wealthy countries’ shrinking appetite for…