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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

The OECD Biodiversity Land use and Ecosystems (BLUE) programme, and the UNDP Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) convened a joint virtual Global Conference on Biodiversity Finance as a milestone in the lead up to CBD COP15. This conference was originally planned to take place in Paris. However,...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

The rich and diverse natural environment of Uzbekistan combined with its gradual transition to a market economy and burgeoning institutional and policy capacities, has piqued the interest of the young republic’s government to join BIOFIN. Jessica Alvsilver, BIOFIN’s Technical Adviser recently joined...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