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    Home»Sections»Energy»Treasury moots R146-billion ‘debt-for-climate’ swap

    Treasury moots R146-billion ‘debt-for-climate’ swap

    Energy By Agency Staff8 September 2021
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    David Masondo, South Africa’s deputy finance minister, has suggested that investors forgive R146-billion of sovereign debt in exchange for Eskom meeting climate targets.

    In order to transition from the use of coal to generate electricity to renewable energy, Eskom will need to borrow about R400-billion, equal to its current debt, and will need a “complementary transaction” to achieve that, he said in a speech on Tuesday.

    Under Masondo’s proposal, which he termed a debt-for-climate-swap, a portion of national debt, which he suggested could be R146-billion, would be forgiven by new or existing creditors. In exchange, South Africa would pledge an equivalent amount as an equity injection into Eskom, conditional on it closing down coal-fired plants, and as guarantees for further borrowing, he said.

    It seems very dangerous for someone at the head of national treasury to be talking about sovereign debt forgiveness

    Some of the money could also be used to cushion communities from the impact of the coal plant closures, he said.

    Masondo first raised the possibility of forgiveness to solve Eskom’s debt problem on 30 July. He gave little detail at the time.

    “It seems very dangerous for someone at the head of national treasury to be talking about sovereign debt forgiveness,” said Peter Attard Montalto, head of Capital Markets research at Intellidex. Private investors are “unable to undertake this given their fiduciary duty as they get nothing to fill the hole that would be left”, he said.  — Reported by Antony Sguazzin, (c) 2021 Bloomberg LP

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