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Interactive discussion

Debt-for-Nature Swaps: Mobilizing Private Investors

Thursday, October 2, 2025 From 15:30 to 17:00 (CET) Centre International de Conférences Genève - Room B (Level 0)
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Innovative Finance & Fintech Nature

This panel explores how private investors perceive debt-for-nature swaps (D4NS), highlighting key challenges and potential incentives. Experts discuss how credit enhancements, blended finance, and innovations like sustainability-linked bonds can scale D4NS, aligning profitability with debt relief and conservation impact.


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Developing countries face a dual challenge: rising debt pressures and growing climate and biodiversity risks. Debt-for-Nature Swaps (D4NS) aim to address both by allowing part of a country’s external debt to be restructured in exchange for commitments to fund conservation or climate projects. While historically driven by bilateral deals, today’s D4NS increasingly involve commercial creditors. As investors seek opportunities that combine financial returns with measurable impact, D4NS present an emerging, though complex, avenue for mobilizing private capital toward sustainable development. This session explores the role of blended finance and other innovative financing mechanisms, and how investors can align profitability with meaningful environmental and debt relief outcomes.