Swapping
The Debt for Nature Symposium was part of a hackathon organised by CrowdDoing and Sustainavista at the Skoll World Forum. Providing debt relief for poor countries in exchange for their protection of natural capital, which secures carbon sinks that the world desperately needs, is a great example of sustainable swapping. In Indonesia, Garbage Clinical Insurance offers another sustainable swap: poor communities clean up trash in their neighbourhoods in exchange for health insurance. In China and Turkey, reverse vending machines allow you to deposit recyclable bottles and receive public transport credit. Let’s do trading-up instead of trading-off.
— Wayne Visser
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