A team from Deutsche Welle has worked with BIOFIN over the past months to document activities in two countries, Seychelles and Costa Rica. They captured footage of the beautiful nature, combined with interviews of biodiversity finance experts and government representatives involved in the work. Deut...Read more
Sustainable Development
On 24 February 2015, BIOFIN was officially launched by UNDP in coordination with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), The Ministry of Finance (MINFIN), the National Council for Protected Areas (CONAP) and the Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the Presiden (SEGEPLAN), th...Read more
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark highlighted the Biodiversity Finance Initiative ( BIOFIN ) as ‘one of UNDP’s flagship programmes ’ in a keynote speech in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea on October 15th. Speaking at the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 12th Conference of Parties to the Conventi...Read more
Ramón J.P. Paje is the 19th Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines. In this interview he explains why biodiversity conservation matters so much for his country, and how the Biodiversity Finance Initiative is helping underpin his country's national strateg...Read more
Guillermo Zúñiga Chaves leads UNDP’s support to the Costa Rican Government for the Biodiversity Finance Initiative ( BIOFIN ). From 2006-2010 he was Finance Minister of Costa Rica. In this interview, he speaks of the importance of investing in biodiversity as a central part of his country’s wider de...Read more