{"id":8397,"date":"2023-12-12T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/?p=8397"},"modified":"2023-12-12T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:13:12","slug":"guide-to-biodiversity-financing-for-cities-and-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/12\/guide-to-biodiversity-financing-for-cities-and-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Biodiversity Financing for Cities and Regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, urbanization is one of the key drivers of biodiversity loss, with 25% of plant and animal species threatened by the effects of intense urbanization, and around 1 million species already facing extinction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But cities have the opportunity to build with and invest in nature, which can provide valuable benefits and lead to multiple economic benefits, such as job creation and increased business value chains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/interactbio.iclei.org\/resource\/guide-to-biodiversity-financing-for-cities-and-regions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Interact-Bio Biodiversity Financing Toolkit<\/strong><\/span><\/a> helps cities and regions access the finance they need to jumpstart projects that are using nature-based solutions. Download today and learn how to navigate the finance landscape and best position biodiversity projects to succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Access the toolkit <a href=\"https:\/\/interactbio.iclei.org\/resource\/guide-to-biodiversity-financing-for-cities-and-regions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>HERE.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, urbanization is one of the key drivers of biodiversity loss, with 25% of plant and animal species threatened by the effects of intense urbanization, and around 1 million species already facing extinction. But cities have the opportunity to build with and invest in nature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,70,51,69],"tags":[1893,1157,529,1349,1892,993],"class_list":["post-8397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-featured-publications","category-news","category-publications","tag-bio","tag-biodiversity","tag-citieswithnature","tag-financing","tag-interact","tag-toolkit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8399,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions\/8399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}