Bente Herstad
Policy Director, Section for Climate, Forest and Green Economy, Department for Climate, Energy and Environment
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The white papers “Sharing for Prosperity” (Meld. St. 25(2012-2013)), “Towards greener development» (Meld. St. 14 (2010–2011)) and “Climate, conflict and capital” (Meld.St 13 (2008-2009) provides a framework for biodiversity in development cooperation.
Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative is the largest biodiversity related program, with a budget of around USD 500 million a year since 2008. The two other main biodiversity related issues of Norwegian aid is sustainable fisheries and research. In addition, a number of smaller biodiversity projects and programs are supported through multilateral and bilateral channels.
An independent analysis of Norwegian development assistance is available at Norway 2013: OECD Development Co-operation Peer Review
Reporting to the CBD on biodiversity in Norwegian development cooperation is available at Summary information 1998-2009.
Examples of biodiversity projects funded by Norway in 2014-2015 The database on ODA statistics on norad.no are open for all to access information on the biodiversity projects funded by Norway.
Capacity building course Southern Africa region: Synthetic biology – biosafety and contribution to addressing societal challenges, 20-26 September 2015, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Biodiversity-related funding policies and programmes All project-managers have to use the “Norad: Statistical Classification Manual, January 2015” to enable easy identification of biodiversity projects, using the Rio markers for biodiversity.
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