By Amanda Brown
On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, the Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery (DRGR) Project hosted the webinar launch of its new report, “Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery: Guaranteeing Sustainable Development.”
A new report from the DRGR project analyzes new data on the level and composition of public and private external sovereign debt for emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs).
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The Debt-Climate-Nexus
The DRGR Project Co-Chairs comment on the tightened monetary policy of central banks, taking dozens of climate-vulnerable, highly-indebted countries to the edge of a financial abyss.
DRGR Project Co-Chair Kevin P. Gallagher on why debt restructuring must be linked with climate and development goals.
The countries of the Global South have contributed little to climate change. But they are particularly vulnerable to its impacts. Now, as a result of COVID-19, debt levels in the Global South have skyrocketed. As a consequence, a triple crisis of health, climate change and lost development is looming. How can highly indebted developing countries respond to these challenges?
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V20 Statement on Debt Restructuring
The V20 has issued a statement on Debt Restructuring that draws upon the proposal “Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery.
The World Bank and IMF are likely to announce a new debt relief initiative at COP26, tying debt relief to Green investment. At the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI), DRGR-author Stephany Griffith-Jones explains our proposal as an alternative based on the Brady Plan that helped Latin America in the 1970s/80s.
On Monday, 28. June 2021 the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University London and the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University hosted an expert webinar discussion and presentation of its new report.
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A Debt Relief Plan for Green Recovery
In the “Breakingviews” section at Reuters, our co-authors Shamshad Akhtar and Ulrich Volz write about the deceptive calm and misplaced optimism in debt markets.
A commentary by the DRGR authors Kevin Gallagher, Shamshad Akhtar, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Ulrich Volz and Moritz Kraemer, published at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI).
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