Innovative financing eases debt while funding ocean conservation

An innovative award-wining public/private-sector program is enabling Belize to restructure its sovereign debt and fund marine conservation projects.

An innovative public/private-sector program is enabling Belize to restructure its sovereign debt and fund marine conservation projects.

Innovative financing to unlock Africa's Blue Economy | Africa Renewal

This implies re-investing in the ocean to create jobs that engage the community who are the stewards of oceans and coastal eco-systems. This has ...

Swapping Debt for Climate or Nature Pledges Can Help Fund ...

Debt-for-climate swaps and debt-for-nature swaps seek to free up fiscal resources so that governments can improve resilience without triggering a fiscal crisis.

The Innovation That's Making Conservation A Smart Financial Move ...

To date, The Nature Conservancy has successfully executed four debt conversions for ocean conservation - in Seychelles, Belize, Barbados, ...

Blue Bonds: An Audacious Plan to Save the World's Oceans

The debt conversion creates new financial flows that support governments in reaching their conservation targets for ocean areas, including for ...

Blue Economy Intel #1: Debt-for-environment swaps - Aninver

The intersection of debt swaps and ocean protection emerges as a promising strategy to tackle the financial challenges faced by nations while ...

SCIFF - ORRAA - Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance

The Sea Change Impact Financing Facility (SCIFF) is a collaborative effort to develop an open ocean financing architecture designed to drive at least USD$1 ...

Innovative Finance: Mobilizing Capital for Maximum Impact

Debt swaps generated $1.4 billion in new financing for development ... to be used for marine conservation and climate adaptation measures. There ...

Implementing the debt-for-nature swaps for marine protected areas

As a financing method providing financial support for environmental protection, debt-for-nature swaps (DFNS) have been implemented for ...

Marine conservation-linked bonds evolve to protect Galapagos ...

Development finance programs combined with private political risk and credit insurance have become a popular way to ease sovereign debt ...

To Protect Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Turns to Innovative Financing

Credit Suisse issued the $656 million marine conservation-linked Galápagos Marine Bond, which was used to finance the new $656 million loan. The ...

Gabon's Odious Debt-for-ocean Swap

The US Conservation Organisation acquires the money to lend to the debtor country – what they call a blue loan – by issuing what they call a ...

Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy

These bonds are debt securities. Box 1. Innovative Financial Instruments ... Conservation Finance Moving beyond Donor Funding toward an Investor-. Driven Approach ...

Bringing Nature Into Sovereign Debt - Cleary Gottlieb

The Seychelles' 2018 DCFN restructuring was a global first, both for the financial markets and biodiversity. It was the first debt conversion to focus on marine ...

Innovative approaches to financing ocean conservation | emLab

Philanthropy has supplied much of this funding to date, and will continue to play an essential role in developing and piloting solutions, but restoring ocean ...

Finance Launch of the first impact loan facility for coral reef ...

Driving the Blue Economy: Blue Alliance and BNP Paribas launch Blue Finance, an impact debt facility to support the development of Marine ...

Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Applauds Plan to Preserve the ...

The debt conversion will also generate more than $450 million in total conservation resources over the next 20 years (and far more over time) to ...

From Debt to Sustainability: Advancing Wastewater Projects ... - MDPI

While aligning priorities and leveraging innovative financial instruments can enhance the effectiveness of debt swaps, limited institutional capacity can ...

Foreign debt and vast ocean: successfully financing marine ...

With the help of foreign partners, the country has piloted two creative financial approaches—a debt-for-nature swap and a sovereign blue bond—to ...