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Kanni Wignaraja, who has over 30 years of experience at the United Nations, has called an expansion of climate finance and a rethink of aid in complex overlapping crises, the 'privatisation' of aid, and the growing climate crisis in Afghanistan. (Photo: UN Photo/Cia Pak)

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The UN official trying to fix Global South debt, climate finance and Afghanistan

Global leaders have arrived in New York for the UN’s General Assembly this week, against a backdrop of the escalating conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine and Sudan, and the increasingly worrying stress caused by global warming, especially in the world's poorest countries. 

One of the most intractable problems is a near-total lack of financial support for ...

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

Kanni Wignaraja, who has over 30 years of experience at the United Nations, has called an expansion of climate finance and a rethink of aid in complex overlapping crises, the 'privatisation' of aid, and the growing climate crisis in Afghanistan. (Photo: UN Photo/Cia Pak)

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

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