Guyana Urges Biodiversity Alliance to Back UN Targets and Close the Nature Finance Gap

Guyana's vice president asked the 142-member biodiversity alliance to support existing UN targets and focus on financing them instead of creating a separate framework. He pointed to a public finance gap of about US$700 billion and said biodiversity credits still lack a settled form, so no major compliance or voluntary market exists yet. The article also covers carbon finance reaching Indigenous villages. The chairman of the national council of Indigenous village leaders said direct transfers fund more than 3,000 village projects and support local economies, though the piece notes these are claims rather than audited results. For anyone tracking nature finance or carbon market development, the useful takeaway is the gap between policy ambition and actual market infrastructure.