Financial Mechanism and Resources

IBD Dialogue on International Financing for Biodiversity: Germany

Germany's International Financing for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services


Axel Benemann

Axel Benemann
Division N I 4
International Cooperation on Biodiversity
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety

Updates on Germany's international cooperation for biodiversity
G-7 Accountability
Accountability report on the G7 biodiversity commitments and actions to be launched during the IDB under the German G7 presidency

Conserving biodiversity – ensuring survival

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Strategies 166: Biological Diversity. This document includes recommendations for cross-sectoral approaches for biodiversity conservation, approaches for addressing biodiversity as a realm of action in its own right, and thematic priorities in protected area management, access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing, and biosafety.

Examples of biodiversity projects funded by Germany in 2014-2015
Committed to Biodiversity: Germany's international cooperation in support of the Convention on Biological Diversity for Sustainable Development, including bilateral funding by BMZ and BMUB, cooperation with multilateral programmes and non-governmental organizations, multilateral funding to the Global Environment Facility, September 2014

Biodiversity-related funding policies and programmes
International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB). Since 2008, the Initiative has been financing climate and biodiversity projects in developing countries and emerging economies, as well as in countries in transition. By the end of 2014, BMUB has initiated 446 initiatives with funding totaling some 1.6 billion euros. The projects are carried out by a broad range of entities: the German Government's major implementing organisations Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and KfW Entwicklungsbank, multilateral organisations like United Nations organisations and multilateral development banks, NGOs, research institutes, foundations and private companies. The IKIs work focuses on four areas:
  • Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions
  • Adapting to the impacts of climate change
  • Conserving natural carbon sinks with a focus on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)
  • Conserving biological diversity


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