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Donation campaign launched by UNDP to support conservation communities during the COVID-19 pandemic The world’s national parks have suffered tremendously from the loss of income due to COVID-19. Iconic parks like the Yellowstone, Serengeti, Kruger or the Great Barrier Reef are either fully, or parti...Read more

From July 2020 onwards, the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) will host 6 webinars featuring the Private Sector experts who took part in insightful discussions of what we know, what we don’t know, the latest news, and the implications of the pandemic for all of us. When new webinars in this s...Read more

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

By Massimiliano Riva, Investment Advisor, UN Joint SDG Fund (Click Here to access publication) Re-thinking and applying strategies to ‘move mountains’ It is a necessary - but incredibly difficult – task to direct private investments into nature conservation and the preservation of biodiversity. But...Read more