The new ‘bond-age’, climate crisis and the case for climate reparations: Unpicking old/new colonialities of finance for development within the SDGs

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a normative framework for external financing that emphasizes stimulating investor interest to address so-called development challenges. However, their underpinnings reflecting continuities of longstanding structural divergence along racial lines when it comes determinants finance and uneven climate devastation are not well explored. Additionally, the current global configuration “billions trillions” remains silent on historical responsibility continuing coloniality reproduce extreme consequences in climate-impacted Caribbean communities. This paper interrogates role SDGs reproducing racialized peripheries extracting surplus value from these formerly colonized communities through use financial logics innovative tools. adoption at same time International Decade People African Descent (2015–2024) appears merely coincidental. A lack concern about justice reparations harms climate-related losses is evident. absence highlights manner which interests privileged mobilized pursuit high-yielding returns be made disaster, debt dispossession. These contradictions usher new era “bond-age” justify loss damage facing frontline marginalised centred justice.