Finance Solutions

Developing environmental fundraising solutions. BIOFIN Regional Dialogue delegates from all over the globe gather at the grounds of the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town held in South Africa.
Developing environmental fundraising solutions. BIOFIN Regional Dialogue delegates from all over the globe gather at the grounds of the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town held in South Africa.
5th Global Biodiversity Finance Conference in Cape Town Highlights New Opportunities to Finance Conservation
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
BIOFIN-SADER subsidies workshop
BIOFIN-SADER subsidies workshop
BIOFIN Mexico presents results on analysis of biodiversity-relevant subsidies
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
(c) Marino
(c) Marino
Investing in the Planet’s Safety Net
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
(C) Sreehari Devadas
(C) Sreehari Devadas
India: For action on biodiversity, we must know what to spend and where
An interview with V.B. Mathur, India’s official delegate to the fourth Nairobi negotiating session of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity By Flavia Lopes, IndiaSpend Why is financing biodiversity conservation important for developing countries? What can you do without finance in your personal...Read more