Green Economy

5 Dec 2022

The Nature of Subsidies: Improving their impacts on biodiversity

UNDP-BIOFIN is set to publish a step-by-step guideline to assess to which extent subsidies and government support are having harmful impacts on biodiversity and create action plans to rethink and redesign them.Read more

16 Nov 2022

Ensuring nature positive insurance

Can the insurance sector help safeguard our natural capital? By Onno van den Heuvel and Jan Kellett Estimates show that nature and ecosystems provide over US$125 trillion per year in goods and services to the global economy. However, nature and ecosystems are in grave danger of collapsing and despit...Read more

26 Oct 2022

Mainstreaming biodiversity into environmental impact assessment processes in Rwanda

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority, with support from UNDP-BIOFIN Rwanda, organized training on Biodiversity Inclusive Environmental Impact Assess-ment (EIA) Guidelines in Kigali last month for ninety-four environmental practitioners’ members of Rwanda Association of Professional Environmen...Read more

4 Oct 2022

Zambia Ministry of Finance adopts new fiscal benefits for green bonds

Zambia's Minister of Finance and National Planning, Hon Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane, MP, last week presented the 2023 National Budget before the National Assembly, unveiling an exemption from withholding tax interest income earned on green bonds listed on the securities exchange in Zambia with a maturi...Read more

23 Sep 2022

Department of Forestry, Fisheries and The Environment Launches Biodiversity Sector Investment Portal

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has launched the Biodiversity Sector Investment Portal to link investors with bankable projects as a means of growing the Biodiversity Economy. Development of the Investment Portal by the Department has been supported the United Nation...Read more