Six new countries joined the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) in early 2014. After wide-ranging national consultations, a number are already using the BIOFIN methodology to build secure financial, institutional and policy bases for action on biodiversity conservation. Guatemala was one of th...Read more
Biodiversity Finance
Policymakers and experts from around the world stressed the need to effectively engage with Ministries of Finance to unlock funds for biodiversity conservation at a major side event at the 12th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea on Octob...Read more
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark highlighted the Biodiversity Finance Initiative ( BIOFIN ) as ‘one of UNDP’s flagship programmes ’ in a keynote speech in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea on October 15th. Speaking at the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 12th Conference of Parties to the Conventi...Read more
Ramón J.P. Paje is the 19th Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines. In this interview he explains why biodiversity conservation matters so much for his country, and how the Biodiversity Finance Initiative is helping underpin his country's national strateg...Read more
Guillermo Zúñiga Chaves leads UNDP’s support to the Costa Rican Government for the Biodiversity Finance Initiative ( BIOFIN ). From 2006-2010 he was Finance Minister of Costa Rica. In this interview, he speaks of the importance of investing in biodiversity as a central part of his country’s wider de...Read more