News and Media Agosto 2025

Contexto y Propósito General Desde 2012, la Iniciativa Finanzas de la Biodiversidad (BIOFIN), impulsada por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), colabora con más de 130 países en la búsqueda de soluciones para cerrar la brecha financiera que limita la conservación de la biod...Read more

Read the multimedia story here Costa Rica wrote the playbook on Eco-Tourism. Its Indigenous Startups Are Reinventing it. Paulino Nájera Rivera grew up surrounded by the majestic forests of southern Costa Rica , where fresh fruit from the wilderness was a daily staple. The forest trails were Paulino’...Read more

As the UNDP Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) enters a new phase of global expansion, we are pleased to welcome two new appointments to our leadership team: Mariana Bellot as Global Programme Manager of the GEF-funded Global Biodiversity Finance Programme and Martin Cadena as Global Manager a...Read more

We’re marking a pivotal year for nature finance across Africa and the Arab States . Governments are facing a widening gap between the resources available to them to protect and conserve nature, and the mounting costs of doing so as economic pressures that don’t accurately account for nature take the...Read more

July 2025 — More than 50 countries have launched national biodiversity finance processes by mid-2025, with support from UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) and the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF). Progress marks a strong start for the 91 new countries that joined BIOFIN under the GEF...Read more