The COVID-19 crisis has come at the worst possible time for humanity. The poorest countries were already struggling to meet their development goals in the face of cyclones, wildfires, and droughts, and the world now has only a decade left to slow down increases in global temperature and sea levels before they become catastrophic, and invest in climate-resilient development.
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The DRGR report calls on the G20 calls on the G20 to move beyond the Common Framework for Debt Treatments and to require public and private creditors to provide a substantial debt cut to a broad set of low- and middle-income countries, in exchange for a commitment to a green and inclusive recovery.
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The Need for Debt-for-Climate Swaps
Op-Ed by Shamshad Akhtar, Kevin P. Gallagher, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Jörg Haas, Ulrich Volz
With developing countries facing a debt crisis that will only get worse as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, it is already inevitable that massive debt relief will be necessary. The only question is whether it will be designed to address the even larger climate crisis that is approaching.