Authors : Bayuni Shantiko, National Coordinator, BIOFIN Indonesia Dyah Selebesia, UNV Project Implementation Officer, BIOFIN Annabelle Trinidad, Senior Technical Advisor, BIOFIN Global Indonesia announced recently the approval of US$ 2.7 million funding for the Maluku Conservation Center from sukuk...Read more
Green Economy
By Tracey Cumming, Technical Advisor BIOFIN, member of CBD Expert Panel on Resource Mobilisation Originally published on Green Economy Coalition Website --- In this article, Tracey Cumming , Technical Advisor at the UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN), argues that safeguarding nature req...Read more
Reflections from the Virtual Conference on Biodiversity Finance Covid-19 stimulus measures must include safeguards for nature to reduce risks of future pandemics. A radical re-think of budgets, investments, and destructive policies that harm biodiversity is essential for long-term recovery after thi...Read more
Through the BIOFIN process, several countries have identified that rather than creating new funds, environmental funds have been set up and are in place; however, many of them are not fully operational and effective. This is the case of Mexico, were the Climate Change Fund was created in 2012 throug...Read more
COVID-19 has exposed critical gaps in the way the world treats and finances its biodiversity. The global pandemic presents a stark reminder that now is the time to reset humanity’s relationship with nature. How to fund that shift is the focus of an international biodiversity finance conference this...Read more