Biodiversity Finance

Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is emerging as one of India’s most effective biodiversity finance solutions, demonstrating how the use of biological resources can generate tangible financial benefits for conservation, local communities, and sustainable development. Supported by UNDP’s Biodiversity...Read more

In Botswana, 40% of the territory is under some type of legal environmental protection, with 17% classified as protected areas. However, limited funding increased their exposure to habitat loss, ecosystem conversion, and other pressures. Protected area fees had not been updated since 2000 in the cou...Read more

Lusaka, Zambia — 2nd December 2025 - Zambia has reached a major milestone in its transition toward a green and climate-resilient economy with the official launch of the Zambia Green Finance Taxonomy (ZGFT), a landmark national framework that provides clear, science-based criteria for identifying env...Read more

By Mr. Donnapat Tamornsuwan, Senior Field Officer, Raks Thai Foundation (interviewed in Thai), and Ms. Niran Nirannoot, Project Manager, BIOFIN, UNDP Thailand (co-created in English) Meet Soodjai Boonsook, a woman whose passion for protecting nature runs as deep as the waters surrounding her island...Read more

A new initiative supporting Türkiye in closing its biodiversity finance gap was launched today in Ankara, bringing together public institutions, academia, and experts Ankara, 5 November 2025 - The project for Supporting the Development of National Biodiversity Finance Plans (BIOFIN) was officially l...Read more