Justice in the Balance: Climate Debt Relief & the Rise of Natural Rights Led Governance | Climate Debt Risk Index 2025 [Global Report]

The Climate Debt Risk Index 2025 (CDRI’25) unveils the uncomfortable truth that nations least responsible for climate change now shoulder its greatest financial burdens, forced to borrow for survival in a world that owes them reparations. Bridging data and justice, CDRI’25 exposes how loan-heavy climate finance deepens inequality across 55 vulnerable economies and redefines climate debt as a moral and legal obligation under the emerging paradigm of *Natural Rights-Led Governance (NRLG)* where people and ecosystems hold the inherent right to exist, thrive, and recover. As the world moves toward a new era of climate finance and accountability, this report stands as both evidence and awakening a call to replace debt with justice, charity with obligation, and rhetoric with repair.

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