Biodiversity Finance

Guillermo Zúñiga Chaves leads UNDP’s support to the Costa Rican Government for the Biodiversity Finance Initiative ( BIOFIN ). From 2006-2010 he was Finance Minister of Costa Rica. In this interview, he speaks of the importance of investing in biodiversity as a central part of his country’s wider de...Read more

A major side event to be held during the 12th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity is set to help the international community push forward efforts to put biodiversity at the centre of sustainable development policy-making and help effectively plug the huge financ...Read more

Governments and specialists around the world can use this tool to analyse and rethink the way biodiversity and ecosystems are financed in their country. The guide is based on the BIOFIN methodology as set out in the BIOFIN workbook, but comprises a more concise series of steps countries can undertak...Read more

Montreal, 4 June 2014 On 17 June 2014, a BIOFIN side event will take place at the Fifth meeting of the CBD Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI). The event will be an opportunity for meeting participants to obtain information about the BIOFIN appraoch a...Read more

From 25 - 27 February 2014, over 100 participants from the 19 countries participating in BIOFIN discussed progress and lessons learned during a 3-day workshop in Bratislava. Key issues on the agenda included an in-depth review on the BIOFIN methodology, and stocktacking of progress of both the BIOFI...Read more