Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN II)

The financ­ing of bio­di­ver­si­ty con­ser­va­tion is a key issue in the imple­men­ta­tion of the Con­ven­tion on Bio­log­i­cal Diver­si­ty (CBD). Most coun­tries lack reli­able infor­ma­tion on the actu­al costs that are need­ed to effec­tive­ly imple­ment their bio­di­ver­si­ty strate­gies, nor do they know where the nec­es­sary funds can be sourced and how they can be used to imple­ment their strate­gies. The BIOFIN ini­tia­tive, mean­while active in over 40 coun­tries, is a glob­al part­ner­ship that sup­ports its part­ner coun­tries by address­ing these knowl­edge gaps. Financ­ing solu­tions are being devel­oped and imple­ment­ed in a sec­ond step. BIOFIN II (extend­ed) focus­es on 1.)The imple­men­ta­tion of bio­di­ver­si­ty finance plans, 2.) Pro­tect­ed area finance, 3.) Devel­op­ment of inno­v­a­tive finance Solu­tions and 4.) Knowl­edge shar­ing.