On December 21, 2022, the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) India, in partnership with the Biotech Consortium India Limited, organized a stakeholder consultation on "Leveraging FinTech for Biodiversity Conservation" at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. The consultation aimed to provide a...Read more
Biodiversity Finance
By Ronja Fischer, Research Consultant, BIOFIN I stood at the river, staring at the hiking trail that led to the ranger stations at the Mts. Iglit-Baco Natural Park in the island of Mindoro, Philippines. On the other side of the river, the rangers, who were a mix of Tau-buid (indigenous people of the...Read more
BER Jalisco 2019-2020
The Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN), implemented by the United Nations Development Program in Mexico, and the Ministry of Environment and Territorial Development of Jalisco (SEMADET), developed the state’s Biodiversity Expenditure Review (BER) 2019-2022. The study presents the amount and an...Read more
(c) UNDP-BIOFIN
The Biodiversity Finance Initiative today looked back at its results since its inception 10 years ago with high-level delegates and partners from across the world. Delegates included Ministers from Botswana, Germany, Belize and Kazakhstan, the Norwegian Special Envoy on Climate and Environment, and...Read more
(c) Chris Greenhow
The UK government has pledged £3.5m ($4.8m) to the United Nations Development Programme's Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) to support the implementation of biodiversity finance plans working with the finance sector and on repurposing subsidies. The funds will be used to develop and expand th...Read more