“Combined with the carbon credits the biodiversity credits mechanism can offer an effective win-win solution for socio-economic and environmental development” by Tulkin Radjabov, National Coordinator of the UNDP BIOFIN Project in Uzbekistan Tashkent, July 11, 2023. The adoption of the Kunming-Montre...Read more
Finance Solutions
Planet Earth needs approximately USD950 billion per year to restore and protect its imperiled ecosystems necessary to people’s livelihoods, according to a 2020 study by the Nature Conservancy, Paulson Institute and Cornell University. However, only USD121 billion is spent on average per year to cons...Read more
On December 21, 2022, the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) India, in partnership with the Biotech Consortium India Limited, organized a stakeholder consultation on "Leveraging FinTech for Biodiversity Conservation" at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. The consultation aimed to provide a...Read more
On January 11, BIOFN Mexico organized a workshop for officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER, for its acronym in Spanish) to review an analysis on subsidies relevant to biodiversity that are linked to productive activities in the rural sector. The results of this analys...Read more
By Midori Paxton, Head, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, UNDP Let us step back in time to more than 2000 years ago, when Chinese philosophical and historical texts contained sophisticated conceptions of nature and our place within it. Daoism, a school of philosophical thought popular to this day, focuse...Read more