{"id":43782,"date":"2021-04-08T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T12:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=43782"},"modified":"2021-04-08T13:44:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T12:44:38","slug":"climate-vulnerability-factored-debt-relief-says-imf-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/04\/08\/climate-vulnerability-factored-debt-relief-says-imf-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate vulnerability should be factored into debt relief, says IMF head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The head of the International Monetary Fund has urged rich nations to reconsider the criteria for developing countries to access international finance, saying vulnerability to climate shocks should be taken into account.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the opening press conference of the IMF\u2019s spring meeting, Kristalina Georgieva said income level was the primary consideration when disbursing international finance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there are other sources of vulnerabilities, for example high vulnerability to climate shocks. And therefore the international community should look into other factors of vulnerability as we think of appropriate ways to support developing countries,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments came after G20 finance ministers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.g20.org\/2nd-finance-ministers-and-central-bank-governors-meeting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreed to extend a debt repayment holiday<\/a> for poor countries beyond June to December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/topic\/debt\/brief\/covid-19-debt-service-suspension-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">73 low income countries<\/a> are eligible for the temporary suspension of debt service payments owed to official bilateral creditors. This excludes most debt-laden middle-income and emerging economies.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers declined to expand the initiative to middle-income countries such as small island states in the Caribbean. There, nations are facing ballooning debt levels as the costs of Covid-19 and climate impacts mount and tourism revenues plummet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/04\/01\/uk-pledges-make-scaling-adaptation-finance-priority-g7-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>UK<\/strong> pledges to make scaling up adaptation finance a priority at G7 summit<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a statement published following the meeting, the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis) said the extension of the debt repayment pause \u201conly goes some way to solving the huge debt issues Covid-19 and climate change have served up to island nations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Aosis has <a href=\"https:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/media\/news\/we-need-new-criteria-financial-support-vulnerable-small-states-wake-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously called<\/a> on G20 members to widen the debt service suspension initiative and consider outright debt relief for highly vulnerable and indebted small island states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than half of the world\u2019s small island states don\u2019t even qualify for this debt relief, due to outdated and illogical criteria,\u201d said ambassador Aubrey Webson of Antigua and Barbuda and Aosis chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are squeezed on all sides, yet due to the arbitrary designation of \u2018middle-income\u2019 status, many of us are told that we do not need assistance. This is ludicrous in a year when our debt-to-GDP ratios are beyond maxed out and when even in the best of times, a hurricane can easily wipe out an entire year\u2019s GDP in one fell swoop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Belize, for example, was locked out of the scheme despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralbank.org.bz\/docs\/default-source\/7.0-news-advisories\/belize-investor-presentation_march19-2021_final.pdf?sfvrsn=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facing debt levels<\/a> of 126% of its GDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs small open economies, we see vulnerability as an inextricable combination of climate and economic vulnerabilities,\u201d Christopher Coye, a minister of state in Belize\u2019s finance ministry, previously told Climate Home News.<\/p>\n<p>Aosis called for the debt repayment holiday to be extended beyond 2021 until a \u201cfairer, more inclusive system\u201d is agreed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/04\/06\/south-africa-sets-tighten-2030-emissions-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>South Africa<\/strong> sets out to tighten 2030 emissions target<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An assessment by the World Bank and the IMF, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/07\/climate\/debt-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seen by the New York Times<\/a>, described the combination of debt, climate change and environmental degradation as representing \u201ca systemic risk to the global economy\u201d that \u201cexacerbates climate and nature vulnerabilities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Georgieva said she was concerned about middle-income countries that have entered the crisis with high debt levels and whose limited fiscal space has meant they haven&#8217;t been able to invest in a resilience and a green recovery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Middle-income tourism-dependent countries are in a very difficult position. We are of course concerned how we rally more support so they can be [on a] more prudent path to recovery,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmultimedia.org\/tv\/unifeed\/asset\/2610\/2610318\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a press conference<\/a> last week additional liquidity in the economy was urgently needed to support the most vulnerable countries. \u201cWe cannot walk head on, eyes wide open, into a debt crisis that is foreseeable and preventable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>G20 finance ministers have backed calls for the IMF to issue $650 billion of special drawing rights (SDRs) \u2013 an IMF reserve asset that has only been issued four times before to respond to crises.<\/p>\n<p>The cash is traditionally allocated according to the size of countries\u2019 economies. Vulnerable nations have urged richer countries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/03\/26\/rare-imf-relief-offers-hope-green-recovery-debt-laden-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to donate or redistribute some of their SDRs<\/a>, to help them afford vaccines and a green recovery.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/03\/26\/rare-imf-relief-offers-hope-green-recovery-debt-laden-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Rare IMF<\/strong> relief offers a hope of green recovery to debt-laden nations<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Georgieva said the IMF was working on a proposal for issuing the crisis funds to present to its executive board, which is made up of member states, \u201csome time in June\u201d. In parallel, she said, the IMF was \u201cidentifying viable options for using SDRs from wealthier members to support our more vulnerable countries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF has received a number of proposals for doing so. This includes calls for ensuring middle-income countries that have been locked out of the debt payment suspension scheme receive more support. Argentina and Mexico are among the nations calling for urgent relief.<\/p>\n<p>Georgieva said the IMF will assess these ideas and ensure they are \u201cdefined on the basis of contributing most effectively to the needs of vulnerable countries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will discuss with the members whether there is enough support to expand the concessionality of re-allocated SDRs beyond low-income countries. How we define these options is work to be done intensively in the next months,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristalina Georgieva said the IMF was considering proposals to ensure climate vulnerable middle-income nations receive support to build back better from Covid-19","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":43785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3863,6,3859],"tags":[89,2394,4580],"coauthors":[4267],"class_list":["post-43782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-energy","category-world","tag-g20","tag-imf","tag-kristalina-georgieva","type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Climate vulnerability should be factored into debt relief, 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