Biodiversity Finance

First working table on finance for the sustainable management of biodiversity
First working table on finance for the sustainable management of biodiversity
BIOFIN Mexico organizes the first working table on finance for the sustainable management of biodiversity
Mexico City. On December 1, the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Mexico, in collaboration with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the German Development Bank (KFW, for its acronym in German), organized the first working table on fina...Read more
(c) UNDP
(c) UNDP
'Closing the Gap' - short film
The world faces a $800 billion per year biodiversity funding gap, funds needed to protect and restore nature. UNDP-BIOFIN is at the forefront of working with governments, the private sector, civil society, and indigenous communities to identify finance solutions which help close this gap. This short...Read more
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(c) Marino
Investing in the Planet’s Safety Net
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
(C) Sreehari Devadas
(C) Sreehari Devadas
India: For action on biodiversity, we must know what to spend and where
An interview with V.B. Mathur, India’s official delegate to the fourth Nairobi negotiating session of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity By Flavia Lopes, IndiaSpend Why is financing biodiversity conservation important for developing countries? What can you do without finance in your personal...Read more
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(C) UNDP
Better together in Koh Tao, Thailand
By Watcharin Fasiriphorn, Mayor of Koh Tao sub-district Municipality Office, Koh Pha-ngan District, Surat Thani province, Thailand I first came here in 1987 as a public health officer for the Koh Tao Island community health post, treating patients and caring for the people here. It was not my intent...Read more