India’s Vice President Shri Venkaiah Naidu launched India’s Biodiversity Finance Plan on Wednesday during celebrations in Chennai for International Day of Biological Diversity. In his address, the Vice President highlighted that conservation of nature and natural resources is an innate aspect of the...Read more
Conservation Finance
By James Maiden and Onno van den Heuvel Nestled among the peaks of the Himalayas between China and India – Bhutan is a land of remote mountain valleys, rich in natural wonders – and with a population less than one million, one of the most sparsely populated countries in Asia. Contrary to the decline...Read more
Strengthening the biodiversity finance community in Africa 16 April, Maputo — Generating sustainable social and economic growth while ensuring biodiversity protection is the focus of representatives of more than 10 African countries gathering in Maputo, Mozambique this week to debate and share lesso...Read more
Central Bank of Sri Lanka launched a Roadmap for Sustainable Finance in Sri Lanka on 10 April 2019 at the Sustainable Banking Network Global Meeting of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Washington, D.C. The Roadmap provides a broad direction to financial regulators and financial institu...Read more
Improving the model for financial compensation paid by firms encroaching on the environment and biodiversity in Colombia. In Colombia's dry broadleaf forests, unique plants and animals such as the red howler monkey and pig-like peccary find themselves living in ever smaller quarters as development e...Read more