Finance Solutions

3 Feb 2022

Zambia Reduces Minimum Investment Threshold to Attract Incentives for Local Green Investments

By Bruno N Mweemba, BIOFIN Zambia Team Leader The Government of Zambia has passed a new bill to attract more local investment in nature-positive businesses across the country. Last month, President Hakainde Hichilema announced that Parliament passed the ZDA Amendment Bill which will see a reduction...Read more

2 Feb 2022

Shaping a Nature Positive Bio-economy

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

Dunes outside Niamey, the captital

13 Dec 2021

Niger becomes the 41st country to join BIOFIN

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

By Sonika Agarwal

25 Nov 2021

Day 2 of pan-regional dialogues: working with finance sector no longer an option – it’s a must

The second day of BIOFIN's online pan-regional dialogue, joined by experts from Asia, Pacific, Eurasia, Europe, the Arab States, Africa Latin America and the Caribbean, triggered dynamic discussions around how governments, private sector, and civil society can innovate for biodiversity protection an...Read more

Hummingbird by Zdeněk Macháček

18 Nov 2021

Day 1 of pan-regional dialogues inspires action for nature

BIOFIN experts were joined by government, civil society, and youth representatives yesterday for Day 1 of a first-of-its-kind pan-regional dialogue for countries to share experiences and lessons learned on delivering financial solutions that work for people and planet.Read more