Financing: status and trends
Implementation of Articles 20 and 21 of the Convention calls for essential information on the status and trends in biodiversity financing as well as funding knowledge and know-how as related to biodiversity. Monitoring reports on biodiversity funding have been prepared and disseminated to enable informed decisions by Parties and relevant stakeholders.
- Global Monitoring Report 2016 on Financing for Biodiversity - focusing on the financial sector: This report features on equities and equity markets, insurance sector, banking sector, institutional investment and bonds.
- Global Monitoring Report 2014 on Resource Mobilization: This draft report observed various successes in the implementation of the Strategy for Resource Mobilization, and provided a large number of case studies on mobilizing financial resources.
- Global Monitoring Report 2012: State of Financing for Biodiversity: This draft report documents the status of biodiversity finance for information of the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties. For the first time, the monitoring report utilized the resource mobilization indicators to assess the status, trends and options in resource mobilization at the global level.
- Global Monitoring Report 2010: Innovative Financing for Biodiversity
Statistical tables
Official development assistance for biodiversity
Rio-marker official development assistance data on biodiversity
Financial mechanism
Pledges to the GEF Trust Fund, uploaded in 12/2015
Utilization of the GEF-6 resources, updated in 12/2015
Financing from other multilateral institutions
Various institutions: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, International Fund for Agriculture Development, The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, International Development Association, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
South-South cooperation
Examples
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Johannesburg Action Plan 2016-2018, with US$60 billion announced by China in support for the ten programmes, including jointly fighting against the illegal trade of fauna and flora products, especially in addressing endangered species poaching on the African continent, in particular elephants and rhinos
Environmental funds
List of environmental funds
Non-governmental sector
Private sector, including exmaples of non-public engagement
Non-governmental organizations, foundations, academia
Domestic expenditure on biodiversity
Domestic budgets for biodiversity
National fiscal measures
Value assessment
Values and economic valuation
The TEEB Valuation Database, including 1310 estimates of monetary values of ecosystem services
Sectoral inclusion
Sectoral consideration of biodiversity
Innovative financial mechanisms
Payment for ecosystem services
Biodiversity offsetting
Market for green products
Access and benefit-sharing measures
General
Status of membership, national reports, national biodiversity strategies and action plans
Advancing More, Better and Faster Financing for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services