The Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN), of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), has the objective of increasing and improving the efficiency of resource allocation for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. In Mexico, the initiative has a finance solution plan that enc...Read more
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On February 9th and 10th, BIOFIN Mexico and the Ministry of Environment and Land-use Planning of Guanajuato (SMAOT for its Spanish acronym) organized a workshop to socialize and prioritize finance mechanisms for biodiversity. More than 60 specialists from public administration (highlighting the part...Read more
Maize, cacao, fish, vanilla, and mezcal are the bioeconomy products BIOFIN is supporting for their potential to positively impact ecosystems In its second call, the first one open to the general public, Mexico’s Bioeconomy Acceleration Fund (FAB, its Spanish acronym) received over 150 applications f...Read more
The second day of BIOFIN's online pan-regional dialogue, joined by experts from Asia, Pacific, Eurasia, Europe, the Arab States, Africa Latin America and the Caribbean, triggered dynamic discussions around how governments, private sector, and civil society can innovate for biodiversity protection an...Read more
On June 17 and 18, 2021, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) organized he Financial Sector and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework workshop.Read more