Biodiversity Finance

KIGALI, Rwanda – 25 June 2025 - More than 150 biodiversity-finance experts and senior government officials from over 55 countries across Africa and the Arab States are meeting in Kigali this week to showcase innovative nature finance solutions and turn conservation plans into investments that delive...Read more

From 25 to 27 June 2025, more than 55 countries from Africa and the Arab States are gathering in Rwanda for the 11 th Regional Dialogue on Biodiversity Finance. The event offers countries a platform to discuss strategies to increase biodiversity finance, exchange experiences on effective finance sol...Read more

A new chapter in sustainable waste management and coastal conservation is unfolding in Thailand. The United Nations Development Programme’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (UNDP-BIOFIN), in collaboration with the Raks Thai Foundation and Krungthai Bank, has launched “From-Trash-to-Treasure: A Commun...Read more

San José, Costa Rica – 27 May 2025 The “Raíces” program, a national initiative supporting Indigenous-led sustainable tourism in Costa Rica, has launched its fourth call for applications — now expanding for the first time to the Caribbean territories of Nairi Awari and Bajo Chirripó. Developed to emp...Read more

By Ian Herbert, Simon Hunt, Mahmoud Sarhan, and Matthew Caro Publishing as members of the University of Otago, New Zealand BIOFIN Assessment Working Group In just 50 years, the Living Planet Index, which monitors 35,000 global wildlife populations, has declined by 73%. [1] In Aotearoa New Zealand al...Read more