'Crippling debt': Calls grow for World Bank and IMF reforms to combat climate crisis

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Stephen Fry, Annie Lennox, Christiana Figueres, Forest Whitaker, and Paul Polman among those calling on G20 leaders to support global financial reforms to tackle debt and climate crises

More than 100 influential figures - from Hollywood actors and international popstars to global business figures and former world leaders - have joined the growing chorus of calls for major global financial...

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