Costa Rica

Costa Rica, the small Central American country with big biodiversity value has stood out as a forerunner for environmental conservation in the region. It has promoted technological innovation, knowledge and research, citizen participation, sustained economic development, decreased inequalities, and...Read more

Nature-based finance solutions are emerging across the Latin American region in raising finance critical to conserving and better managing biodiversity. Adriana Dinu, Executive Coordinator UNDP/GEF, joined by experts and officials from Cuba, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemal...Read more

Mr. Guillermo Zuñiga is BIOFIN Lead Expert in Costa Rica. He is the former Finance Minister of Costa Rica. In this Report from the Field, He tells about the financial mechanism used by the Government of Costa Rica. What are the main economic sectors that impact biodiversity in Costa Rica? Our Instit...Read more

A team from Deutsche Welle has worked with BIOFIN over the past months to document activities in two countries, Seychelles and Costa Rica. They captured footage of the beautiful nature, combined with interviews of biodiversity finance experts and government representatives involved in the work. Deut...Read more

Guillermo Zúñiga Chaves leads UNDP’s support to the Costa Rican Government for the Biodiversity Finance Initiative ( BIOFIN ). From 2006-2010 he was Finance Minister of Costa Rica. In this interview, he speaks of the importance of investing in biodiversity as a central part of his country’s wider de...Read more