For more than a decade, there was a demand for a regional voice to champion the Caribbean’s environmental challenges. The Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) answered that call.

Established in 2012 to create reliable, long-term funding for conservation and sustainable development in the Caribbean region. Today, the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) is a regional umbrella environmental fund that uses a flexible structure to implement innovative solutions and consolidate resource mobilization in the Caribbean through a range of financial instruments.

The Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) seeks the services of an external auditor for a period of three (3) years.

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The Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) and Guyana Protected Areas Trust (PAT) on May 3, 2022, signed a Partnership Agreement.  This Agreement, the 10th such for the CBF, will provide the PAT with additional resources to fulfil its legislative mandate of co-financing Guyana’s National Protected Areas System (NPAS), as articulated in the Protected Areas Act of 2011.

We are proud to announce that Agence Française De Développement (AFD) and the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) have committed €4M to provide support to the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) and its 12 affiliated National Trust Funds through innovative and sustainable financing tools to protect biodiversity. The CBF and its partner national conservation trust funds (NCTFs) together form the Caribbean Sustainable Finance Architecture. This Architecture has been key in supporting the original goals of the Caribbean Challenge Initiative. 

The CBF seeks a Conservation Finance Program Manager with a proven record of success in managing environment funds and projects in order to effectively implement the Conservation Finance Program (CFP).

 

The Board of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Karen McDonald Gayle as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Regional Conservation Trust Fund. Mrs. McDonald Gayle, who had been acting in the position since August 2021, was officially appointed on March 1, 2022.