The Government of Germany has announced a €15 million contribution through the International Climate Initiative (IKI) to support joint work by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), and UNESCO on conserving and restoring landscapes that host more than one fifth of the world's species, according to a press release by the United Nations Development Programme. The announcement was made on October 26, 2026, during the Bridging the Nature Finance Gap event in Yerevan, Armenia. The event took place on the margins of the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17). It was jointly hosted by UNDP, UNESCO, UNCDF, Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN), and the Government of Flanders. Organizers underscored the urgent need for sustained finance to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.