Biodiversity finance grew ahead of COP16 but came mostly as loans, says OECD

Funding for efforts to protect and restore nature increased to $15.4 billion in 2022 – mostly driven by concessional loans from multilateral banks
A group of biologists check a book in the forest of Liberia
Grace Kotee Zansi, a park biologist at the East Nimba Nature Reserve, checks her book as she walks with her colleagues Peter Farnloe, a law enforcement ranger and Quoi Flomo, a community conservation worker, in a forest in the Nimba Mountains, Liberia, June 11, 2021. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra To match Special Report GLOBAL-PANDEMICS/BATS-JUMPZONES

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