Jul 23, 2025

Can One Crisis Solve Another? Debt-for-Nature Swaps with Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine

Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine

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Jul 23, 2025

Season 2

Episode 14

Can One Crisis Solve Another? Debt-for-Nature Swaps with Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine

As mounting debt strangles public services and climate disasters escalate, a provocative idea is gaining ground: what if countries could trade their debt burdens for environmental action? In this episode of DevelopmentAid Dialogues podcast, host Hisham Allam speaks with Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine, Director General of the Association for Forests, Development and Conservation (AFDC), about debt-for-nature swaps—a mechanism that promises relief for both treasuries and threatened ecosystems....

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Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine

Director General

Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine is the director general of Lebanon's Association for Forest Development and Conservation, and a senior advisor to the Minister of Agriculture in Lebanon.

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Hisham Allam

DevelopmenAid Dialogues host

Hisham Allam is a DevelopmentAid journalist and podcast host, renowned for award-winning investigative work, including the Pulitzer Prize for his contributions to the Panama Papers.

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Can One Crisis Solve Another? Debt-for-Nature Swaps with Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine

Can One Crisis Solve Another? Debt-for-Nature Swaps with Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine

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DevAid Dialogues

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