Sovereign Debt and Climate Finance Conference Papers

This three-day conference explored why the ongoing debt emergency remains unresolved, how it can worsen the climate crisis and alternative strategies for climate finance. Different sessions considered the channels through which debt stress and inadequate climate spending stoke each other, and discussed ways of addressing these pressure points urgently; assessed ongoing debt stress resolution efforts and proposed alternative templates for viable restructuring of debt and pathways to sustainable development; and discussed the inadequacies of the prevailing climate finance architecture and propose alternative structures that are fit for purpose.