India, Feb. 29 -- UNEP executive director makes case for debt for climate and nature swaps,cites example of Ecuador

Nature-based solutions to the global climate crisis remain grossly underfunded, receiving only a fraction of what is needed to help them make a significant contribution in taming the crisis.

The solutions receive only about $200 billion globally a year, which is less than a third of the over $600 billion required annually by 2030, to meet the goals of climate, biodiversity loss and halting land degradation.

Even worse, their importance is being made more urgent by continued investments in sectors and in ways that harm nature and worsen climate change, said Inger Andersen, executive director of the United Nations Environme...