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Debt-for-Nature Swap

"arrangement by which an indebted developing country undertakes, in exchange for cancellation of a portion of its foreign debt, to establish local currency funds to be used to finance a conservation programme."

Source: United Nations, Glossary of Environment Statistics

   
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