Biodiversity Finance

The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan has adopted the Concept for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity (Concept). This strategic framework sets clear priorities and targets to strengthen biodiversity conservation across the country and ensure the sustainable use of bio...Read more

Closing the biodiversity finance gap will require private capital on a scale. Across more than 130 countries, UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (UNDP BIOIFN) is supporting countries to tap innovative private finance for nature. The world needs US$700 billion every year to halt and reverse biodi...Read more

UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) in China pilots market-based solutions, from migratory bird insurance to blue bonds, in Shanghai and Shandong provinces A new wave of financial innovation is taking shape in China, where eight pioneering feasibility studies are moving from analysis to...Read more

Achieving global goals to protect nature requires financial resources. Parties to the Convention agreed to mobilize up to $200 billion a year globally - the sum for Target 19 of the Global Biodiversity Framework. The work is already underway. Since 2018, UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFI...Read more

Through the +Natura +Rural program, partner institutions launch an initiative to strengthen the rural bioeconomy San José, February 19, 2026. The Institute of Rural Development (INDER), the Nature Investment Facility (NIF), and the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) of the United Nations Devel...Read more