# Leveraging Debt for a Sustainable Future
**Date de l'événement :** 16/08/2025
* Publié le 16/08/2025

### Date
18/03/2025

### Auteur
**[Paola Subacchi](https://conference.sciencespo.fr/structure/paola-subacchi_iPao7SaAzMzFAeLqsAi5)** 
**[Thierry Watrin](https://conference.sciencespo.fr/structure/thierry-watrin_vfBiTT4lyhN7eQqviPzA)** 


## Corps du texte
**As countries face pressing environmental and social challenges, can debt be leveraged as a tool to finance sustainable growth? In this episode, Paola Subacchi and Thierry Watrin explore this crucial question, delving into the complex relationship between debt and sustainable development. The discussion covers how sovereign debt strategies, responsible lending, and innovative financial mechanisms can help address climate change, poverty, and inequality.**  

**Hosts & Guests:**

**Paola Subacchi is Professor of Political Economy, University of Bologna, and the Incoming Chair in Sovereign Debt and Finance at Sciences Po.**

**Thierry Watrin, a former advisor to Rwanda’s Minister of Finance, currently leads the Sustainable Debt Coalition, a UN initiative. He teaches a course on climate diplomacy at Sciences Po.**

**Audio / Podcast :**
[Vidéo 1](https://player.ausha.co/?podcastId=a7j0wtGj9lgn&playlist=false&color=%23E6142D&v=3&playerId=ausha-kcUx) 

## Texte - reste des podcasts
> How do countries incur in debt? And why does debt become unsustainable? How debt crises are triggered, and how a small nation managed to bring the Euro area on the edge of collapse? I am [Paola Subacchi](https://www.sciencespo.fr/psia/sovereign-debt/the-team/), and this is DebtTalks, the podcast of Sciences Po Chair in Sovereign Debt and Finance. With my guests I’ll be discussing the economics and politics of debt, exploring past and current episodes of debt distress, examining legal controversies, and much more. Join us for the latest insights and stay tuned on DebtTalks.
> 
> [Listen to the other episodes.](https://podcast.ausha.co/debttalks)

### Thématique
`#Environnement` 

**Langue :** `#Anglais` 



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