Biodiversity Finance

From July 2020 onwards, the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) will host 6 webinars featuring the Private Sector experts who took part in insightful discussions of what we know, what we don’t know, the latest news, and the implications of the pandemic for all of us. When new webinars in this s...Read more

Reflections from the Virtual Conference on Biodiversity Finance Covid-19 stimulus measures must include safeguards for nature to reduce risks of future pandemics. A radical re-think of budgets, investments, and destructive policies that harm biodiversity is essential for long-term recovery after thi...Read more

By Massimiliano Riva, Investment Advisor, UN Joint SDG Fund (Click Here to access publication) Re-thinking and applying strategies to ‘move mountains’ It is a necessary - but incredibly difficult – task to direct private investments into nature conservation and the preservation of biodiversity. But...Read more

The OECD Biodiversity Land use and Ecosystems (BLUE) programme, and the UNDP Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) convened a joint virtual Global Conference on Biodiversity Finance as a milestone in the lead up to CBD COP15. This conference was originally planned to take place in Paris. However,...Read more

Through the BIOFIN process, several countries have identified that rather than creating new funds, environmental funds have been set up and are in place; however, many of them are not fully operational and effective. This is the case of Mexico, were the Climate Change Fund was created in 2012 throug...Read more