Biodiversity Finance

16 Nov 2022

Can the insurance sector help safeguard our natural capital? By Onno van den Heuvel and Jan Kellett Estimates show that nature and ecosystems provide over US$125 trillion per year in goods and services to the global economy. However, nature and ecosystems are in grave danger of collapsing and despit...Read more

15 Nov 2022

New twists to biodiversity finance solutions discussed at Europe, Asia & Pacific dialogue

By Abbie Trinidad, Senior Technical Advisor, BIOFIN From Georgia to the Pacific islands, BIOFIN’s diverse presence across Europe, Asia and the Pacific covers important rich biodiversity hotspots and vast ecosystems. But it is also a region facing severe pressures on nature as populations surge and c...Read more

11 Nov 2022

Experts Share Strategies to Reduce Global Biodiversity Funding Gap

Over 70 biodiversity finance experts from Europe and Asia shared various approaches to reduce the global funding gap for biodiversity management at the United Nations Development Programme Biodiversity Finance Initiative’s (UNDP-BIOFIN) Regional Dialogue, held from 8 to 10 November 2022 at the Conra...Read more

26 Oct 2022

Mainstreaming biodiversity into environmental impact assessment processes in Rwanda

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority, with support from UNDP-BIOFIN Rwanda, organized training on Biodiversity Inclusive Environmental Impact Assess-ment (EIA) Guidelines in Kigali last month for ninety-four environmental practitioners’ members of Rwanda Association of Professional Environmen...Read more

MVC Yucatan workshop with ejidatarios

6 Oct 2022

BIOFIN Mexico participates in workshop on Voluntary Carbon Markets in Yucatan

The Secretariat of Sustainable Development (SDS, for its acronym in Spanish) of the state of Yucatan, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) Mexico, UNDP’s Climate and Forests Programme, the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity I...Read more