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
Biodiversity Finance
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Pacific Harbour, Fiji, 9 July 2025. – Government representatives from 15 Pacific Island Countries and Territories have convened this week at The Pearl Resort in Pacific Harbour to officially launch the GEF-8 funded Pacific Biodiversity Finance (BIOFIN) Umbrella Programme, a landmark initiative to st...Read more
4 July 2025, Buenos Aires, Argentina - The launch was attended by national and subnational authorities, private and development banks, civil society representatives, international cooperation agencies, and academics. As part of the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) of the United Nations Devel...Read more
Seville, June 30 – An innovative new financing mechanism for tiger landscape conservation was launched today during the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville, Spain. Led by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the UN Capital Development Fu...Read more