“The purpose of our letter is to encourage the British Government to play a constructive role in discussions to secure a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG)”. This is the beginning of the letter that the English Catholic Bishop in charge of environmental issues, John Arnold, and his Anglican counterpart, Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich, wrote to the British Government in the runup to COP29, the UN Climate Change Conference taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, until 22nd November. In their message, Arnold and Usher ask that “new, public money, sourced from the heaviest-polluting individuals and companies, is directed to the countries that have been hit the hardest by the climate crisis and that such subsidies should be donations instead of loans, as they would only add to low-income countries’ existing debts”. The two Bishops’ demands to the British Government include the request to “tax more adequately the income of gas and oil companies for the environmental damage they cause” and to “lay down laws to force privates who have granted loans to the poorer countries to reduce or cancel such debts so that the developing countries do not have to make a choice between paying huge interest bills to overseas lenders and paying to protect their communities from the climate crisis”.