Biodiversity Finance

Read the multimedia story here Costa Rica wrote the playbook on Eco-Tourism. Its Indigenous Startups Are Reinventing it. Paulino Nájera Rivera grew up surrounded by the majestic forests of southern Costa Rica , where fresh fruit from the wilderness was a daily staple. The forest trails were Paulino’...Read more

We’re marking a pivotal year for nature finance across Africa and the Arab States . Governments are facing a widening gap between the resources available to them to protect and conserve nature, and the mounting costs of doing so as economic pressures that don’t accurately account for nature take the...Read more

By Nuansiri Vaidyanuvatti, Executive Vice President, Krungthai Bank, Thailand and Niran Nirannoot, Project Manager of UNDP-BIOFIN Thailand Dawn breaks over Koh Pu’s emerald waters, and Somchai checks his nets one final time before pushing his longtail boat into the gentle tide. Like his father and g...Read more

Colombo, Sri Lanka, 21 July 2025 – One hundred small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Sri Lanka have been awarded the National Sustainable Tourism Certification (NSTC) by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UN...Read more

Since 1900, the Philippines has lost nearly two-thirds of its forests, shrinking its forest cover from 21 million hectares to just seven million in the 2010s. Despite existing illegal logging bans, the Philippines loses an estimated 52,000 trees daily due to deforestation, land conversion, and agric...Read more