Thematic Funding

2007 CBD Note on GEF support to the programme of work of the Convention

2003 CBD Note on financial support to the programme of work of the Convention

National planning for biodiversity

Global Taxonomy Initiative

• Funding and opportunities, read http://www.cbd.int/gti/funding.shtml
• Special fund for the Global Taxonomy Initiative (Decision VIII/3)

Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments

• Biodiversity Indicators for National Use project website
• Southern African Botanical Diversity Network (SABONET) project website

Technology cooperation and transfer

Communication, education and public awareness

National reporting

Conservation including protected areas

• Read http://www.cbd.int/protected/keyissues.shtml
• World Heritage Fund and its funds-in-trust

Climate change and biological diversity

• Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF);
• Least Developed Countries Fund;
• Adaptation Fund;
• Clean Development Mechanism (CDM);
• emissions trading;
• Joint Implementation (JI);
• World Bank carbon finance

Invasive alien species

• Read http://www.gisp.org/about/funders.asp
• Technical cooperation programme of International Maritime Organization (http://www.imo.org/)

Incentive Measures

Biosafety

• GEF Strategy for Financing Biosafety (English)
• Read http://www.cbd.int/biosafety/issues/finance.shtml;
• Voluntary Fund for the Roster of Experts

Ecosystem approach

Agricultural biodiversity

• GEF Operational Program on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity Important to Agriculture (English, French, Spanish)
• The Funding Strategy for plant genetic resources (English);
• Global Crop Diversity Trust

Dry and sub-humid lands biodiversity

• GEF Operational Program on Arid and Semi-Arid Zone Ecosystems (English, French, Spanish)
• GEF Operational Program on Sustainable Land Management (English, French, Spanish)
• UNCCD Global Mechanism (http://www.global-mechanism.org/)

Forest biodiversity

• GEF Operational Program on Forest Ecosystems (English, French, Spanish)
• World Bank Program for Forest (http://www.profor.info/):
  • Exploring the Potential for Avoided Deforestation;
  • Mobilizing Private Sector Buyers;
  • Catalyzing Payments for Ecosystem Services;
  • Reform of Forest Fiscal Systems (Washington DC, October 2003);
  • Forest Investment Forum (Washington DC, October 2003);
  • Innovative Financial Mechanisms – CLI for UNFF;
  • Evaluating the Flows of Financing for Sustainable Forest Management (Input to the UNFF 2003);
  • Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Forest Investment Forum (June 2006);
  • Fostering Partnerships between Local Communities and the Private Sector (Kenya);
  • Support for Forest Policy Analysis (China);
  • Economic Incentives for Forest Landscape Restoration and SFM (Bogotá, Colombia, January 2004)
• UNFF7 Bureau's Paper on a Global Forest Partnership Trust
• Online CPF Sourcebook on Funding for Sustainable Forest Management, Go to the sourcebook
• International Tropical Timber Organization (http://www.itto.or.jp/)

Inland waters biodiversity

• GEF Operational Program on Coastal, Marine, and Freshwater Ecosystems (English, French, Spanish)
• The Ramsar Small Grants Fund;
• The Wetlands for the Future Initiative;
• Swiss Grant for Africa

Marine and coastal biodiversity

• GEF Operational Program on Coastal, Marine, and Freshwater Ecosystems (English, French, Spanish)
• Technical Assistance Programme of the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) of the Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) (website)

Mountain biodiversity

Access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing

Traditional knowledge, innovations and practices

• Voluntary Trust Fund to Facilitate the Participation of Indigenous and Local Communities in the Work of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Decision VIII/5), Go to http://www.cbd.int/traditional/fund.shtml
• The Hundested Recommendations from Roundtable & Workshop "Indigenous Peoples & Biodiversity Governance: Donor Best Practices Supporting Civil Society and Conservation" (Hundested, Denmark, 7-9th March 2001)