LONDON (Reuters) -Debt swaps are becoming a more widely used tool to help indebted countries raise money for conservation or climate-related projects. Under a swap, a country buys back more expensive ...

It’s been nearly 40 years since the first debt-for-nature swap was signed between the government of Bolivia and Conservation International, erasing some of Bolivia’s debt while expanding a national ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia carried out its largest domestic public debt swap in history, for 43.4 trillion pesos ($11.18 billion), the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday night, as part of its debt ...

HAMBURG -Colombia is in talks with Germany for a debt-for-nature swap as the country seeks to fund its $40 billion plan to transition away from fossil fuels and protect the environment, Foreign ...

Debt-for-nature swaps convert debts of low- and middle-income countries, unable to service external debts, into commitments related to nature. In the face of recent geopolitical tensions, economic ...

The government of Kenya is looking at a new way to deal with the rising debt crisis, and Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has proposed swapping it for food security. According to the Treasury’s ...

As we’ve watched the biodiversity COP in Colombia and then the climate COP negotiations in recent weeks, the urgency of addressing the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss has never ...

China launched a Rmb6trn (US$838bn) debt swap programme to tackle local government "hidden debt" on November 8, the latest iteration and the largest amount ever for such a programme. But market ...

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