Past Events
Kicking the Can Down the Road or Meeting the Challenge? Tackling Sovereign Debt Problems Amid Global Shocks
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
11:00-12:30 ET
Join us for a panel discussion at the World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings 2025, organized by the Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery (DRGR) Project. Experts will assess the sovereign debt crisis amid global shocks, review current relief efforts, and propose decisive measures to enable investment in green growth and development.
Investing for the Future: How Debt Relief Can Help Make Space for Climate and Development Goals
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
9AM EDT | 3PM CEST
Join us for a webinar discussion featuring global experts in international development, debt and climate on the latest DRGR Project report and how to sustainably advance development and climate investments.
Moving Beyond Current Debt and Development Crisis: Solutions for Genuine Debt Sustainability
Friday, April 19, 2024
11:30-13:00 PM EDT
Join us for an official Civil Society Policy Forum event at the 2024 International Monetary Fund/World Bank Group Spring Meetings and learn how to effectively solve this debt crisis considering it is as well a development crisis.
Navigating the Intertwined Debt and Climate Crises: Unveiling and Assessing Solutions
Friday, April 19, 2024
4:00-5:30 PM EDT
Join us for an official Civil Society Policy Forum event at the 2024 International Monetary Fund/World Bank Group Spring Meetings to explore existing proposals for navigating the debt and climate crises.
Financing for Resilience: Closing the Adaptation Finance Gap
Official Side Event at COP28
Saturday, December 9, 2023
08:45 – 10:15 AM EST | 16:45-18:15 GST
Join the Boston University GDP Center and Greenovation Hub (G:HUB) for an official COP28 side event on investing for climate resilience and adaptation featuring global experts on development and climate finance.
Sovereign Debt: The Elephant in the Room of Climate Finance
DRGR Side Event at COP28
Sunday, December 3, 2023
11:00 – 11:45 AM | Colombia Pavilion at COP28
Join us for a panel discussion at the COP28 on innovative financial mechanisms that will enable the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The cover decision of COP27 already noted with concern the increasing indebtedness of developing country parties: Can COP28 go beyond and deliver real progress? How could the COP outcome reflect the debt crisis?
Defusing the Debt Time Bomb: The Role of an Effective Crisis Prevention and Resolution Architecture
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
8:30-10:00 AM EDT | 1:30-3:00 PM WEST
Join us for a panel discussion at the 2023 International Monetary Fund/World Bank Civil Society Policy Forum on reforming the international financial architecture to address the growing debt crisis.
The Debt-Climate Nexus in Africa and Development-Centered Solutions
Official African Climate Summit Side Event.
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
5:30 – 6:30 EAT
Join us for an official African Climate Summit side event highlighting potential climate and development-centered frameworks that could provide alternatives to the G20 Common Framework and deliver on comprehensive, inclusive and timely debt restructuring. Most critically, this event will provide an opportunity for participants to share considerations and critical feedback on proposed alternatives to hone a collective voice for to pursue debt relief and climate positive growth.
Emergency Coalition for Debt Sustainability and Climate Prosperity
Affiliated Event of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact.
Friday, June 23, 2023
7:30 – 08:30 AM CEST | 1:30 – 2:30 PM EDT
The objective of this roundtable was for debtor countries to determine a set of coordinated demands in the context of the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR). It was also meant to generate interest in pooling technical knowledge of the restructuring process and its components: debt sustainability analyses, comparability of treatment and other concepts which form the restructuring architecture.
Guaranteeing Sustainable Development: Debt Relief for Green and Inclusive Recovery
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
9:00 – 10:00 AM EDT | 3:00 – 4:00 PM CET
On Tuesday, May 2, the DRGR Project launched the new report in a webinar featuring experts in global development policy from around the world advancing a proposal for debt relief for a green and inclusive recovery.
This Time Must Be Different: Reforming the International Debt Architecture for Green and Inclusive Development
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
6:15 – 7:30 PM EDT
The panel discussed potential policy solutions to developing countries’ debt vulnerabilities that would allow them to address their development and green recovery needs. The panel assessed the progress of the G20 Common Framework and discussed how to improve the current international debt architecture.
Debt Sustainability and the Cost of Climate Inaction
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
2:30 – 4:00 PM EDT
The expert panel at the IMF/World Bank 2023 Spring Meetings Civil Society Policy Forum discussed the IMF’s role in adapting debt sustainability assessments to reflect the cost of climate inaction and incorporate equity considerations.