Sri Lanka

Closing the biodiversity finance gap will require private capital on a scale. Across more than 130 countries, UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (UNDP BIOIFN) is supporting countries to tap innovative private finance for nature. The world needs US$700 billion every year to halt and reverse biodi...Read more

In Sri Lanka, sustainable tourism is proving that protecting nature and improving livelihoods can go hand in hand. Through the National Sustainable Tourism Certification, more than 200 small tourism entrepreneurs, many of them homestay and hotel owners, are adopting environmentally friendly practice...Read more

A four-day capacity-building workshop on Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) brought together government, private sector, and civil society stakeholders in Kandy from 19–22 August 2025 to strengthen Sri Lanka’s path toward sustainable biodiversity finance. In a country like Sri Lanka, where the sta...Read more

Colombo, Sri Lanka – 19 August 2025 – Sri Lanka today launched its first-ever livestock insurance scheme to address human–wildlife conflict and protect the endangered Sri Lankan Leopard ( Panthera pardus kotiya ). The initiative was unveiled by the United Nations Development Programme’s Biodiversity...Read more

Colombo, Sri Lanka, 21 July 2025 – One hundred small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Sri Lanka have been awarded the National Sustainable Tourism Certification (NSTC) by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UN...Read more