The sovereign debt crisis indicated that conventional methods of assessing sovereign debt might need to be extended with new information sets. One of this new information sets could be indicators of a sustainability focused national culture based on social, environmental and political issues....

This article discusses the links between climate and debt sustainability by focusing on how climate mitigation and adaptation are paid for, and who pays for it. This requires thinking about instruments such as sovereign bonds, carbon credits, conditional official grants and debt relief from both...