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Finance Solutions
By James Maiden Taking and integrated approach to how countries financially manage initiatives that preserve biodiversity and mitigate and adapt to climate change is crucial, experts say at the side event held by BIOFIN at the COP 23 in Bonn last week. Raising finance and better managing existing fi...Read more
Thursday, 9 th November 2017 at 12:30-2:00pm UNDP Pavilion, The Bonn Zone, COP 23, Bonn, Germany Recently, innovative pilots integrated financial assessment and planning methodologies for climate change and biodiversity, based on CPEIR (Climate Policy Expenditure and Institutional Review) the BIOFIN...Read more
By Pilar Zapata Coloma, BIOFIN Chile. Is it possible that, when giving credit to a company, a bank or finance institution will assess the environmental risks of the project to be financed; for example, if it affects nearby communities, if it impacts native forest biodiversity, or if it has significa...Read more
By Blerina Gjeka, Programme Associate and Gender Focal Point, BIOFIN The Kingdom of Bhutan is a small country nested among the Eastern Himalayas. A place of unparalleled beauty and rare encounters with endangered Bengal tiger, the mythical Takin – Bhutan’s national animal, the park of the Yetis, the...Read more