‘Biodiversity Finance Solutions Exhibition - 5th BIOFIN Global Conference’ This poster is part of an series of all BIOFIN countries and showcases the innovative (existing or potential) finance solutions and work of the countries and partners. As part of the 5th Global Conference on Biodiversity Fina...Read more
South Africa
(c) Marino
By Midori Paxton, Head, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, UNDP Let us step back in time to more than 2000 years ago, when Chinese philosophical and historical texts contained sophisticated conceptions of nature and our place within it. Daoism, a school of philosophical thought popular to this day, focuse...Read more
(C) Charl van Rooy
By Mafela Simon, Secretary of Tshivhula Communal Property Association, South Africa We, the Tshivula people, are the direct descendants of the great Mapungubwe kingdom, founded more than 1,000 years ago. My ancestors hunted these lands, gathered the mopani worms, and picked wild berries. Nature, or...Read more
(C) Nadine Venter
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has launched the Biodiversity Sector Investment Portal to link investors with bankable projects as a means of growing the Biodiversity Economy. Development of the Investment Portal by the Department has been supported the United Nation...Read more
Ms Nokutula Mhene UNDP Programme Management Specialist
On 21 June 2022, UNDP hosted a session to present emerging initiatives to promote investment into biodiversity investment at the SRI congress. The 90-minute hybrid event that took place at the Future Africa Auditorium at The University of Pretoria, South Africa hosted a moderated expert panel discus...Read more