News and Media November 2018

By Midori Paxton The planet is in crisis. The World Wildlife Fund has just released its 2018 Living Planet Report . Humans have wiped out 60 percent of animals between 1970 and 2014. The figures contained in the report are just a few symptoms of the dire state the planet is in. The 2030 Agenda is ev...Read more

Hanoi, November 8, 2018 - At the Academy of Finance, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Biodiversity Conservation Agency, Vietnam Environment Administration, and Viet Nam Student Magazine announced the winners of the “Online Speaking Competition on the Sustainable Development Goals on Bi...Read more

Biodiversity finance is a key issue at the upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference in Sharm, El Sheikh, Egypt from 14-29 November. Governments and organisations will work to step up efforts to halt the biodiversity loss and protect the ecosystems that support food and water security and health for billi...Read more

At the fifth Our Ocean Conference that was held on 29th and 30th October 2018 in Bali, BIOFIN Indonesia partnered with the Ministry of Finance of Republic of Indonesia, organized an Ocean Talk about the innovative financing mechanism for marine biodiversity. The speakers were Mr Dewa Putu Ekayana, t...Read more