BIOFIN Thailand is celebrating the award from the Global Corporate Sustainability Awards (GCSA) for best practice in CSR for the work with Krungthai Bank of the 'Better Together' crowdfunding campaign. Before Covid-19, Koh Tao island in Surat Thani province, which has one of the world's best diving...Read more
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This year’s World BioEconomy Forum, broadcast live from Belém – the mouth of the Amazon river – in Brazil, featured experts in the field of biodiversity and bio-economies from across the world, including a speaker from BIOFIN.Read more
At the High-Level Plenary of the UN Biodiversity Conference, Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, highlighted the important role BIOFIN plays in protecting and restoring nature. “We are now pioneering new ways to channel game-changing levels of finance towards nature and the Global Goals. At UNDP, our...Read more
By Onno van den Heuvel, BIOFIN Global Manager This week I had the opportunity participate in the high-level pre-CBD COP event organised by the Government of Colombia, laying the groundwork for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The event, personally hosted by the President of Colombia Iván...Read more
UNDP is exploring innovative ways to unlock the potential of human-wildlife conflict insurance. The Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) and The Insurance & Risk Finance Facility (IRFF) – two UNDP programmes - recently held a workshop with partners, including WWF, to explore ways insurance can b...Read more