The Cali Fund ushers in a new era for biodiversity finance. Companies making commercial use of data from genetic resources in nature in a range of lucrative industries are now expected to contribute to the Fund. The Cali Fund will mobilize new streams of funding for biodiversity action worldwide, distributing these funds to developing countries as well as indigenous peoples and local communities. Adopted by 196 Parties, the Cali Fund is the financial arm of the multilateral mechanism for benefit sharing from the use of Digital Sequence Information on genetic resources (DSI).