Climate Change

9 Dec 2022

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

16 Nov 2022

Ensuring nature positive insurance

Can the insurance sector help safeguard our natural capital? By Onno van den Heuvel and Jan Kellett Estimates show that nature and ecosystems provide over US$125 trillion per year in goods and services to the global economy. However, nature and ecosystems are in grave danger of collapsing and despit...Read more

15 Nov 2022

New twists to biodiversity finance solutions discussed at Europe, Asia & Pacific dialogue

By Abbie Trinidad, Senior Technical Advisor, BIOFIN From Georgia to the Pacific islands, BIOFIN’s diverse presence across Europe, Asia and the Pacific covers important rich biodiversity hotspots and vast ecosystems. But it is also a region facing severe pressures on nature as populations surge and c...Read more

29 Jul 2022

Forestry enterprises of Kyrgyzstan learned to develop a budget in a program format

The UNDP project “Biodiversity Finance Initiative” provides support for the development of a program result oriented budgeting basis in forestry enterprises (FEs) to the Forest Service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Kyrgyz Republic. SSG Consult LLC (SSG), a UNDP project consultant, supported...Read more

28 Jul 2022

New Podcast: Nature positive investment strategies with Karner Blue Capital

Karner Blue Capital is a woman-owned and led enterprise which is building global investment strategies dedicated to protecting the planet’s biodiversity, fostering environmental stewardship and improving animal welfare. We caught up with President and Co-Founder Vicki Benjamin to learn how they prio...Read more