Biodiversity Finance

3 Feb 2022

Zambia Reduces Minimum Investment Threshold to Attract Incentives for Local Green Investments

By Bruno N Mweemba, BIOFIN Zambia Team Leader The Government of Zambia has passed a new bill to attract more local investment in nature-positive businesses across the country. Last month, President Hakainde Hichilema announced that Parliament passed the ZDA Amendment Bill which will see a reduction...Read more

2 Feb 2022

Shaping a Nature Positive Bio-economy

By Ronja Fischer, BIOFIN Intern We recently investigated what kind of financial actions are needed to create a nature-positive bio-economy. Now, we will take a deeper look at how the bio-economy itself could be nature positive, taking forestry as an example. When talking with countries or companies...Read more

By Carlo Lisa

1 Feb 2022

Swamps need saving, how can we invest in them?

Today is world wetlands day. Wetlands ecosystem services are worth US$47 trillion annually, supporting the livelihoods of one billion people and supporting life on this earth. Yet the story of our wetlands is a story of disappearance and a story of an urgent need for financing these important source...Read more

12 Jan 2022

Building Back Better, Together: Corporate Conclave on Biodiversity Conservation in India

Creating a platform for developing detailed understanding about the scope of contribution of the private sector to conservation and sustainable use of biological resources in India.Read more

Photo: Nino Zedginidze/UNDP

11 Jan 2022

Learning to be Wild

In Georgia, UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative helps orphaned bears return to nature. Kopala and Chopika, two uproarious bear cubs, were named after mythical Georgian heroes. A third and smaller brown bear, who arrived at the Tbilisi Zoo bear sanctuary limping from a foot injury, was named ‘Garr...Read more