News and Media février 2022

(c) Jeremy Ricketts
(c) Jeremy Ricketts
By Ronja Fischer, BIOFIN Intern We recently investigated what kind of financial actions are needed to create a nature-positive bio-economy. Now, we will take a deeper look at how the bio-economy itself could be nature positive, taking forestry as an example. When talking with countries or companies...Read more
Today is world wetlands day. Wetlands ecosystem services are worth US$47 trillion annually, supporting the livelihoods of one billion people and supporting life on this earth. Yet the story of our wetlands is a story of disappearance and a story of an urgent need for financing these important source...Read more
Dunes outside Niamey, the captital
Dunes outside Niamey, the captital
Niger is the latest nation to join UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN), becoming the 41 st country to do so, thanks to support from the government of Belgium. In the coming years they will measure, in cooperation with the Executive Secretariat of the National Environment Council for Sust...Read more