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debt-for-nature swaps

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a conservation agency buys up some of a developing country's international debt ("secondary" debt) on the world's money market. The agency then promises to dispose of the debt in return for a promise from the indebted country that it will look after a conservation area. [GBA]

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CHM Biodiversity

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http://biodiversity-chm.eea.europa.eu/nyglossary_terms/D/debt-for-nature_swaps

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