09/10/2025
16:00 - 16:45
Exhibition booth 320
Por qué asistir
Discover practical, field-tested financing solutions that empower local actors to conserve biodiversity while delivering inclusive economic benefits. Learn enabling conditions, partnerships, and policies that unlock finance for nature—and be part of the launch of GEF BIOFIN Voices, amplifying innovation in biodiversity finance
Descripción de la sesión
This side event spotlights innovative financing approaches that place local governments and civil society at the center of biodiversity conservation and sustainable, inclusive economic development. Building on over a decade of UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) in partnership with the GEF, the session presents concrete, field-tested solutions that unlock finance for nature at the local level. Through multi-region case studies, participants will explore how targeted policy shifts, capacity strengthening, and multi-stakeholder collaboration mobilize resources and ensure equitable, long-term impact. An interactive panel will unpack enabling conditions and effective partnerships that make these approaches work in practice. The event also marks the official launch of GEF BIOFIN Voices—part of the ‘GEF Voices’ platform—spotlighting innovators in biodiversity finance and elevating nature’s value for economic and financial decision-makers, in collaboration with the GEF, GBFF, and UNDP Nature’s BIOFIN programme.Organized by
GEF