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Article: Are debt-for-nature swaps scalable: Which nature, how much debt, and who pays?
Title | Are debt-for-nature swaps scalable: Which nature, how much debt, and who pays? |
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Keywords | Conservation COVID-19 Debt-for-nature swaps Sovereign debt Sustainable development |
Issue Date | 1-Jan-2024 |
Publisher | Springer |
Citation | AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 2024, v. 53, p. 63-78 How to Cite? |
Abstract | With the ongoing sovereign debt and biodiversity crises in many emerging economies, applications of debt-for-nature swaps as a dual solution for sovereign debt and nature conservation have been re-emerging. We analyze how debt-for-nature swaps (DNS) can be scaled to protect biodiversity priority areas and reduce debt burden. We build a dataset for biodiversity conservation and debt restructuring in 67 countries at risk of sovereign debt distress and show that they hold over 22% of global biodiversity priority areas, 82.96% of which are unprotected. Furthermore, we show that for 35 of the 67 countries, using conservative cost estimates, 100% of unprotected biodiversity priority areas could be protected for a fraction of debt; for the remaining countries, applying DNS would allow the protection of 11-13% of currently unprotected biodiversity priority areas. By applying interdisciplinary research combining fundamental biodiversity and economic data and methods merging, the research contributes methodologically and practically to the understanding of debt-for-nature swaps for emerging economies. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/338534 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 5.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.786 |
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dc.contributor.author | Nedopil, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yue, MD | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hughes, AC | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-11T10:29:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-11T10:29:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2024-01-01 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 2024, v. 53, p. 63-78 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0044-7447 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/338534 | - |
dc.description.abstract | With the ongoing sovereign debt and biodiversity crises in many emerging economies, applications of debt-for-nature swaps as a dual solution for sovereign debt and nature conservation have been re-emerging. We analyze how debt-for-nature swaps (DNS) can be scaled to protect biodiversity priority areas and reduce debt burden. We build a dataset for biodiversity conservation and debt restructuring in 67 countries at risk of sovereign debt distress and show that they hold over 22% of global biodiversity priority areas, 82.96% of which are unprotected. Furthermore, we show that for 35 of the 67 countries, using conservative cost estimates, 100% of unprotected biodiversity priority areas could be protected for a fraction of debt; for the remaining countries, applying DNS would allow the protection of 11-13% of currently unprotected biodiversity priority areas. By applying interdisciplinary research combining fundamental biodiversity and economic data and methods merging, the research contributes methodologically and practically to the understanding of debt-for-nature swaps for emerging economies. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Springer | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Conservation | - |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | - |
dc.subject | Debt-for-nature swaps | - |
dc.subject | Sovereign debt | - |
dc.subject | Sustainable development | - |
dc.title | Are debt-for-nature swaps scalable: Which nature, how much debt, and who pays? | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s13280-023-01914-4 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 37658986 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85169539671 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 53 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 63 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 78 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1654-7209 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:001057076600001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | DORDRECHT | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0044-7447 | - |