ESG & Investing
IMF, Barbados Reach Deal for First-Ever Loan Under Climate Trust
- Money will be used to bolster nation’s environmental defenses
- Caribbean island is perennial victim of hurricanes, flooding
The International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, DC.
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The International Monetary Fund and Barbados agreed to almost $300 million in loans to help the hurricane-battered Caribbean island, including the first credit of its kind under a new tool to help nations bolster their defenses against climate change.
The staff-level deal, which still needs to be approved by the crisis lender’s board, includes $183 million under the new Resilience and Sustainability Trust, or RST, the IMF said in a statement on Wednesday. It also incorporates $110 million in a traditional three-year extended fund facility.