Greening Sovereign Debt: Addressing Dual Crises of Climate and Debt

Combining debt relief with climate and nature outcomes can offer an elegant solution to multiple systemic crises. But to have a systemic effect, the approach must be replicable and scalable.  This session will explore how refinancing sovereign debt —adapted to different country circumstances as blue and/or green finance mechanisms—could offer a workable and widely applicable blueprint to help countries reprofile or reduce debt burdens while simultaneously accelerating their transitions to carbon-neutral, nature-positive economies.