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Debt management and swaps

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work on debt relief measures for the world’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries, which currently spend twice as much servicing debts as they receive in climate finance.

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Debt repayments eclipse climate finance for low-income nations

Press release, 13 October 2025

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Breaking down siloes: reforming financing and trade for climate adaptation in LDCs

Publication, 09 October 2025

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Climate and Development Ministerial

Article

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IIED's debt solution adopted in UN outcome on development finance

Impact story, 14 July 2025

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Finance for climate adaptation in the most vulnerable places… Time for a major rethink?

Long read, 23 June 2025

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Currency fluctuations costing low-income countries billions in higher debt repayments

Press release, 25 April 2025

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Breaking the debt burden: how to unlock finance for climate and nature

Event on 09 April 2025

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Aligning debt relief for climate and nature with the Principles of Effective Development Cooperation

Publication, 25 February 2025

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World’s least developed countries spend twice as much servicing debts as they receive in climate finance

Press release, 16 October 2024

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Co-designing a debt support service for Small Island Developing States

Impact story, 28 August 2024

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Charting a comprehensive financial solution for resilient prosperity

Active Project

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Hurricane Beryl shows why fast-acting loss and damage fund is critical

Press release, 04 July 2024

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New plan to end ‘vicious debt spiral’ for climate-affected Small Island Developing States

News, 30 May 2024

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New economic support service for Small Island Developing States: a "clarion call" for action on debt and financial resilience

Press release, 28 May 2024

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Inequality 2.0

Insight, 26 April 2024

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Debt swaps could release $100 billion for climate action

Press release, 15 April 2024

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Gearing debt swaps towards debt relief

Insight, 03 April 2024

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Private investors profiting from $200 billion of bond debt in climate-vulnerable developing countries

Press release, 05 October 2023

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Vulnerable island nations turning to pricey private debt as climate disasters escalate

Press release, 13 September 2023

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Sinking islands, rising debts: urgent need for new financial compact for Small Island Developing States

Publication, 13 September 2023

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Resilient prosperity in SIDS: forging a new finance compact

Insight, 29 August 2023

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Climate-vulnerable indebted countries paying billions to rich polluters

Press release, 10 July 2023

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Reform the global financial system to support transformational adaptation

Insight, 03 July 2023

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Paris finance summit makes minimal progress on debt

Press release, 23 June 2023

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Climate finance

Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Least developed countries (LDCs)

Climate resilience

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