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Climate Voices: Catalyzing Private Finance–Barbados' Debt-for-Climate Conversion

  • October 22, 2024

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  • 52:06

Barbados' innovative debt-for-climate conversion takes public-private collaboration one step further and promises a scalable model that can transform climate finance without increasing public debt.

  • Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados
  • Ana María Ibáñez, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge at the IDB
  • Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank
  • Donna Wellington, Managing Director of CIBC Caribbean Bank - Barbados & Eastern Caribbean
  • Moderator: Bo Li, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF