Besides debt swaps for food security, Kenya has also been considering debt-for-nature or climate swaps to unlock funds for ...

According to the Makati Declaration, debt swap arrangements should be simple in design and financing, transaction cost reduced, transparent, and create incentives for creditors.

Development banks and environmental organizations should prioritize a debt-for-nature swap deal with Tonga as it is a promising pathway for the nation to alleviate its debt burden, enhance ...

Emerging markets specialist investor Ashmore hopes multibillion dollar impact bond funds will become the norm after launching ...

Ecuador scooped the green bond structure innovation award for its $1 billion debt-for-nature swap finalised in December, which was the largest ever deal of its type to date and the first to include ...

Ecuador’s dollar bonds, for instance, posted strong gains in 2024 following the country’s second debt-for-nature swap. However, they declined in early 2025 after President Noboa failed to ...

In his budget presentation for 2024/25, PM Briceño said that when his administration took office “the debt was as high as 132 percent of GDP.” And then we were out of the woods. PM Briceño said in the ...

The agreement is the fourth “debt-for-nature” swap the two countries have struck since 2009 and is expected to fund at least 15 years of conservation work in two key areas of what is known as ...

And working with capital market and really coming up with more innovative financing like bonds and biodiversity credits, debt for nature swap, and other issues that our team is working on,” she ...

The law firm also last year worked on a landmark pro bono $35 million debt-for-nature swap with the US and Indonesia to protect coral reef ecosystems. Environmental Finance Sustainable debt awards ...