News and Media May 2017

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

A major side event to be held during the 12th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity is set to help the international community push forward efforts to put biodiversity at the centre of sustainable development policy-making and help effectively plug the huge financ...Read more

Governments and specialists around the world can use this tool to analyse and rethink the way biodiversity and ecosystems are financed in their country. The guide is based on the BIOFIN methodology as set out in the BIOFIN workbook, but comprises a more concise series of steps countries can undertak...Read more