News and Media October 2019

The Government of Belize launched Phase II of BIOFIN in mid-October, as the program moves into the important stage of implementing finance solutions in the small Caribbean nation. Belize’s economy and population rely heavily on nature and significant parts of the GDP are derived from sectors such as...Read more

BIOFIN Botswana-UNDP in collaboration with the Botswana Department of Wildlife and National parks embarked on a consultative process and assessment of Protected Area (PA) assets and facilities as well as the services in Chobe National parks, Moremi game reserve, Makgadikgadi Pans, Nxhai pans and Khu...Read more

By Helen Avery. First published in Euromoney https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1hh1rccjthqmd/conservation-finance-can-banks-embrace-natural-capital Which financial tools for conservation? John Tobin was a tropical ecologist doing arboreal and biology studies under Edward Wilson, spending his time i...Read more

By Helen Avery. This article was first published in Euromoney https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1hh1rccjthqmd/conservation-finance-can-banks-embrace-natural-capital Climate is no longer the only risk in town: thanks to a loud call from the scientific community, nature has finally been given a seat...Read more

BIOFIN Chile and UNDP in cooperation with the Sustainability and Climate Change Agency has published an Agricultural Best Practices Guide in Chile's first agroecological town, San Nicolas in the Nuble region. The guide aims to help farmers to increase agricultural productivity while maximising the p...Read more