Environmental preservation and corporate involvement: green products and debt-for-nature swaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Water Resolution for America] Reference

One of the new financing mechanisms that one often hears mentioned lately is called the debt-for-nature swap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fidel Castro Issues `Message' to UNCED] Reference

Further recognition of the special needs of developing nations is embodied in the “debt-for-nature swaps.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 4] Reference

The deal is the largest so-called debt-for-nature swap the U.S. government has organized so far under the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. to Forgive Indonesian Debt in Exchange for Conservation Plan] Reference

The debt-for-nature swap, regardless of the good intentions of environmentalists, does not resolve the following problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fidel Castro Issues `Message' to UNCED] Reference

Even in this manner, it appears evident that the debt-for-nature swap programs are far from being the right mechanism to connect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fidel Castro Issues `Message' to UNCED] Reference

Included in the projects supported by the GCF were two debt-for-nature swaps, one in Peru in 2003 and another in Colombia in 2004.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes] Reference

So, for example, when I was in Bangladesh recently I announced a debt-for-nature swap that we were going to help finance with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Of The President By Leo Dicaprio For Earth Day] Reference

The U.S. in the past has organized smaller debt-for-nature swaps with countries like Guatemala, Botswana, the Philippines and Peru.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. to Forgive Indonesian Debt in Exchange for Conservation Plan] Reference

Priority countries for these innovative debt-for-nature swaps could include countries such as Bangladesh, Peru, and the Philippines.    From Wordnik.com.  [President And Vp On Protecting Forests And Biodiversity] Reference

These include mechanisms like bioprospecting rights, debt-for-nature swaps, conservation easements and biodiversity friendly products like shade-grown coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forest environmental services] Reference

The innovative debt-for-nature swaps authorized by the Act help to preserve forests and protect endangered species while relieving poor nations of crippling debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On Bangladesh To Conserve Its Tropical Forests] Reference

Although excessive borrowing should not be encouraged, debt-for-nature swaps are a constructive policy instrument for salvaging ecological benefits from previous mistakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 4] Reference

We strongly support innovative measures like debt-for-nature swaps, in which Third World countries are forgiven part of their foreign debt in exchange for protecting rain-forest land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Al Gore] Reference

This fund was established in 1987-1989 through a debt-for-nature swap by the Swedish Government, the Costa Rican Central Bank, FPN and the Ministry of the Environment and Energy (MINAE).    From Wordnik.com.  [Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica] Reference

It also proposes increased funding for innovative debt-for-nature swaps, training and technical assistance, and research into causes and prevention of forest fires; and creation of the first comprehensive satellite maps of the world's tropical forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On Protecting Endangered Animals Of India] Reference

In Grande Sertão Veredas, which was established in 1989, FUNATURA is working to better manage the protected area and protect it from growing agricultural threats using funds obtained through the first and only debt-for-nature swap ever approved for Brazil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Cerrado] Reference

In addition to traditional sources of finance, there are many new or revamped mechanisms, such as debt-for-nature swaps, the Clean Development Mechanism, emissions trading, and attempts to create international funds for global public goods such as rainforests and biodiversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 10] Reference

It would provide training and technical assistance to developing countries; support debt-for-nature swaps that preserve rain forests while relieving poor nations of crippling debt; protect endangered tropical species; and build the first complete set of satellite imagery tracking forest loss worldwide.    From Wordnik.com.  [President And Vp On Protecting Forests And Biodiversity] Reference

Innovative Approaches: To channel resources from HIPC receiving debt reduction from debt service into education or environmental protection, using innovative financial instruments like debt-for-nature swaps; and take new approaches to promote reconstruction in countries emerging from protracted conflicts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On New Us Initiative On Debt] Reference

The rich nations should use foreign aid dollars, debt-for-nature swaps, and park trust funds to pay for the land; they might also fund "elite corps, well-trained and well-paid," of park rangers that could guard these wildlands against encroachment, and a Nature Corps analogous to the Peace Corps to help oversee them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Without People?] Reference

In addition to debt-for-nature swaps, the initiative would support increased training and technical assistance, expanded research into causes and prevention of forest fires, strengthened protections for endangered tropical species, and creation of the first comprehensive satellite maps of the world's tropical forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On Bangladesh To Conserve Its Tropical Forests] Reference

The proposed funding, an 88 percent increase over FY 2000, would provide additional training and technical assistance to developing countries; support debt-for-nature swaps that preserve forests while relieving poor nations of crippling debt; protect endangered tropical species; and help build the first complete set of satellite imagery tracking forest loss worldwide.    From Wordnik.com.  [President And Vp On Protecting Forests And Biodiversity] Reference

It will complement an existing TFCA debt-for-nature program in Peru dating from 2002.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Newswire] Reference

He is noted for developing "debt-for-nature swaps," under which environmental groups purchase troubled foreign debt at low prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [FOXNews.com] Reference

Funds generated by the debt-for-nature program will help Peru protect tropical rain forests of the southwestern Amazon Basin and dry forests of the Central Andes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Newswire] Reference

The awardees are also applauded for their analyses of the impact of global change phenomena on tropical forests, and for developing the crucial conservation policy mechanism for protecting natural landscapes known as 'debt-for-nature swaps'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

The debt-for-nature swap comes under the Tropical Forest conservation Act of 1998, legislation intended to allow eligible developing countries to forego paying back debt owed to the U.S. in exchange for supporting local tropical forest conservation activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

The National Forest Trust Fund, which will be raised by the Ministry of Forestry from foreign donors, would be an expansion of a pilot initiative established last year in a debt-for-nature swap between Indonesia and the United States, according to Hadi Daryanto, director general of forest production at the Ministry of Forestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

Such debt-for-nature agreements are a successful model of government and citizen cooperation to improve and expand conservation efforts, "he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Newswire] Reference

(2) A brief perusal of their project affiliates reveals a campaign of greenwashing, (3) and so it is fitting that within six months of opening their doors for business, Conservation International made history by becoming the "first environmental group in the world to do a debt-for-nature swap.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference