Background In June 2025, a group of conservation organizations, chaired by The Nature Conservancy, published a new set of voluntary practice ...

The 'debt-for-nature' swaps, which reduce a country's debt in return for conservation commitments, have gained traction in recent years with deals involving the Galapagos Islands, coral reefs and ...

Belize (2021): Belize executed a $553 million debt-for-nature swap, reducing its external debt by 10% of GDP. The agreement, facilitated by TNC and backed by “blue bonds,” committed Belize to ...

Belizean fishermen and others whose livelihoods depend on Belize’s marine resources will now be better able to adapt to Climate Change and become more resilient to its impacts, with monies from funds ...

According to OECD, $83 billion were channelled to developing countries in 2020, with only 14% originating from the private sector. Still, there have been some noteworthy debt-for-nature swap deals ...

Debt-for-nature swaps are gaining traction as a way to restructure sovereign debt in exchange for conservation commitments. In this episode of ESG Currents, Bloomberg Intelligence’s Director of ...

Discussions are in the final stages to set up a mechanism supported by multilateral development banks to undertake sovereign debt swaps on a regional scale across the Caribbean. Several countries in ...

The 'debt-for-nature' swaps, which reduce a country's debt in return for conservation commitments, have gained traction in recent years with deals involving the Galapagos Islands, coral reefs and ...