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Access BIOFIN's library of resources, including flagship publications, country reports, finance solution case studies, webinars, explainer videos, podcasts, and more.

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Insurance can play a crucial role in biodiversity conservation by providing financial protection against risks to natural assets, incentivizing sustainable practices, and securing key investments.

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In 2022, countries adopted new global biodiversity targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), revisiting many goals that had gone unachieved or underachieved over the past decade.

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Global Biodiversity Expenditure (GLOBE) is a taxonomy that categorizes all potential public expenditures for biodiversity.

The taxonomy consists of two components:

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The BIOFIN Workbook 2024 provides detailed guidance to design and implement national biodiversity finance plans.  These are not mere plans. They set out a process to engage a coalition of actors around the issue of biodiversity finance for an extended time.

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At the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity 15 (CBD COP 15) in 2022, countries agreed to review and update their National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans

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Well-intentioned subsidies aimed at socio-economic goals can have unintended negative impacts on the environment, including biodiversity. The BIOFIN team has developed a step-by-step guide to repurpose such subsidies and improve their positive impacts on people and nature.

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The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) calls for a whole-of-society approach to halting and reversing nature loss.

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The Little Book of Investing in Nature provides an essential overview of the area of biodiversity finance at a time when governments and international negotiators are urgently seeking pragmatic solutions for the twin crises of climate change and the loss of nature.

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Guía adaptada de asistencia al emprendimiento en negocios verdes Metodología En Marcha Digital para la Economía Popular y Solidaria (EPS) 

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Finance Solution -  "Measuring and Addressing Potential Adverse Impacts on Biodiversity from Agricultural Subsidies". Identification of Potential Negative Impacts to Biodiversity and Its Components by Agricultural Subsidies. Prepared by: Joint Venture - Dzelkva LTD and NNLE “Ecolution Georgia“ for the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN).

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El presente manual de buenas prácticas para la gestión de planes sostenibles, puede ser una herramienta utilizada por cualquier empresa turística. Permite guiar y servir como base para la gestión de los recursos de una empresa en ámbitos económicos, sociales y ambientales, bajo la implementación de acciones y prácticas empresariales sostenibles.

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The brochure for the BIOFIN Extended Phase 2 in India, running from 2021-2025.

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El presente documento pretende guiar a las Instituciones Cooperativas de ahorro y Crédito (CAC), en la construcción de elementos pragmáticos en la incorporación de metodología ampliamente aceptada sobre administración de riesgos ambientales y sociales (SARAS).

Case Studies

Biodiversity financing --crowdfunding with Krungthai bank creating livelihood for boat owners who have lost jobs in COVID to redeploy to marine conservation, cash-for-work programme with conservation element at Koh Tao Island, Surat Thani province.

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A Financial Needs Assessment is a comprehensive estimate and analysis of the financial resources needed to fully implement the biodiversity-related activities in a country to achieve its national and sub-national biodiversity targets. By comparing the expenditure on biodiversity as identified in the Biodiversity Expenditure Review to the financial needed analyses based on organisations sampled, the financing gap is estimated to better inform the development of the Biodiversity Finance Plan which helps prioritising of biodiversity strategies and actions and build strong case for resource mobilisation.  

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The BIOFIN Integrated Report gives an overview of Phase 1 of the BIOFIN Malaysia (2014 – 2019). It highlights results from the expenditure review and financial needs assessment that have been mapped to the goals and targets of National Policy on Biological Diversity, providing valuable information and recommendations to policy planners and financial decision-makers to better formulate their policy goals and prioritise actions to reach the NPBD goals.

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The Biodiversity Finance Plan builds upon the Biodiversity Expenditure Review and the Financial Needs Assessment, is an 8-year resource mobilisation plan to make biodiversity financing a national priority and biodiversity needs are fully addressed in a timely and appropriate manner by 2025. It proposed nine innovative solutions to address biodiversity financing needs and achieve the National Policy on Biological Diversity. 

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The BIOFIN Integrated Report gives an overview of Phase 1 of the BIOFIN Malaysia (2014 – 2019). It highlights results from the expenditure review and financial needs assessment that have been mapped to the goals and targets of National Policy on Biological Diversity, providing valuable information and recommendations to policy planners and financial decision-makers to better formulate their policy goals and prioritise actions to reach the NPBD goals.

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Inception Report on 'Developing a resource mobilisation strategy for implementing a State Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan of Uttarakhand and demonstration of select financial solutions for conservation of the snow leopard landscape, Gangotri-Govind and Darma Byans Valley in Uttarakhand, under the GoI-UNDP project on SECURE Himalaya.