Financing the clean development mechanism through debt-for-efficiency swaps? Case study evidence from a Uruguayan wind farm project

Cassimon, Danny, Prowse, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1271-468X and Essers, Dennis (2014) Financing the clean development mechanism through debt-for-efficiency swaps? Case study evidence from a Uruguayan wind farm project. European Journal of Development Research, 26. 142–159. ISSN 0957-8811

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Abstract

As one of Kyoto’s three flexibility mechanisms, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) allows the issuance of Certified Emission Reduction credits from offset projects in non-Annex I countries. As little attention has been paid to how CDM projects are financed, this article assesses whether offset schemes with public bodies should utilise debt swaps as a form of funding. Specifically, we examine whether a debt-for-efficiency swap between Uruguay and Spain within a wind power project increased project finance and generated greater development co-benefits. We assess the transaction using a simple evaluative framework: whether it delivered additional resources to the debtor country and/or government budget; whether it delivered more resources for climate change mitigation; whether it had a sizeable effect on overall debt burdens (creating ‘indirect’ benefits); and whether it aligned with government policy and systems (elements of the new aid approach). We find evidence that cautions against using the Spanish–Uruguayan case as a model for future debt-for-efficiency swaps.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 21 Jul 2020 01:37
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2022 06:31
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76195
DOI: 10.1057/ejdr.2013.34

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