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Scaling up Biodiversity Finance

Presentation from experts (50min) - Share the disscussion summery of "Quito Seminar on Scaling up Biodiversity Finance". - Intruduce biodiversity finance in Japan. - New ideas for index of resilience and financial mechanism. Q&A and discussion among participants (40min)

Scaling up Biodiversity Finance in Japan

This session will mainly discusse about strategy for resource mobilization sharing with cases of Japan. Presentation from experts (50min) - Introduce biodiversity finance cases in Japan. - Share the disscussion summery of "Quito Seminar on Scaling up Biodiversity Finance". Q&A and discussio ...

Global Canopy Programme presentation on the revised `Little Biodiversity Finance Book`

Global Canopy Programme presentation on the revised `Little Biodiversity Finance Book`

Briefing by the Expert Team on GEF-6 Needs Assessment

Presentation of the GEF-6 Financial Needs Assessment and the methodology used to generate the Target by Target results

Regional Workshop on Valuation and Incentive Measures for South America

15 - 17 May 2012, Santiago, Chile

Sub-regional Workshop on Valuation and Incentive Measures for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

29 - 31 May 2012, Tbilisi, Georgia

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Biotrade Congress, 18 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Biotrade Congress, 18 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) - Rio + 20

20 - 22 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

UNEP/CBD/COP/11/INF/10

Incentive Measures (Article 11): Updated synthesis of information on progress in implementing decision X/44

UNEP/CBD/COP/11/INF/22

Report of the Study on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Water and Wetlands

The New Bioeconomy: Innovative Financial Mechanisms, Payments for Environmental Services, REDD+ and the Financialization of Biodiversity

The side event will address the potential impact of proposed markets in environmental services and other innovative financial mechanisms on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women. It will also discuss new phenomena like the financialization of biodiversity and how the proposed bioeconom ...

Conserving Biodiversity through Market Mechanisms: Biodiversity Offsets and their Potential for Company Participation

Markets are increasingly used to generate additional funds for biodiversity protection. This session will generate interest from the private sector by showing the advantages and risks of investing in these markets and the benefits it brings for biodiversity. It will focus on biodiversity offsets ...

TIPPING TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY: APPLYING RESILIENCE THINKING IN BIODIVERSITY GOVERNANCE

In this side event, UNDP and the Resilience and Development Programme (SwedBio) at Stockholm Resilience Centre will present the concept of “resilience” in relation to the objectives of the CBD. Enhancing ecosystem resilience is one of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, and is critical to prevent ec ...

Ecosystem restoration on cotton fields – bringing environmental and economic interests together

The side event presents the successful project “Cotton Connect”, an initiative engaged in ecosystem restoration without GMO and pesticides offering organic cotton and supporting the Better Cotton Initiative, in cooperation with the world´s leading organic cotton clothing retailer C&A and its Ger ...

How stakeholders can build both with economy and biodiversity goals?

Orée is a French non-profit organization which leads for ten years a prospective thinking about biodiversity issues for companies of all size. In this context, a guide and a special issue – available in English and French – have been published on the subject "Integrating biodiversity into busine ...

Ecosystems, Economy and Employment: A labour approach to biodiversity

The event will present the findings of the report published by Sustainlabour in collaboration with Fundación Biodiversidad on the links between ecosystems and biodiversity, economy and employment. Loss of biodiversity is causing the decline of ecosystem services, whose impact is not only social ...

Implementation tools for valuation and incentive measures

Reference: SCBD/SEL/ML/GD/81035 (2012-144)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the International Seminar “Towards Linking Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services to Economic and Human Activity”, New York, United States of America, 27 - 29 November 2012

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the Montreal Council of Foreign Relations, Montreal, Canada, 28 November 2012

Sub-regional Workshop on valuation and incentive measures for Sub-Saharan West Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 19 to 22 February 2013

Reference: SCBD/SEL/ML/GD/80981 (2012-150)
To: CBD National Focal Points of: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo and relevant organizations

Decision XI/30: Incentive measures; Decision XI/4: Review of implementation of the strategy for resource mobilization, including the establishment of targets

Reference: SCBD/SEL/ML/GD/81348 (2013-022)
To: CBD NFPs and relevant international organizations

UNEP/CBD/RW-IM-WAFR/1/1/ADD1

Background and Programme of Work

Sub-regional Workshop on Valuation and Incentive Measures for Sub-Saharan West Africa

14 - 17 May 2013, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the International Conference “Global Implementation Programme for the SEEA”, 17-19 June 2013, New York City

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the International Conference “Global Implementation Programme for the SEEA”, 17-19 June 2013, New York City

R E M I N D E R: Decision XI/30: Incentive measures Decision XI/4: Review of implementation of the strategy for resource mobilization, including the establishment of targets

Reference: SCBD/SEL/ML/GD/81348 (2013-049)
To: CBD NFPs and relevant international organizations

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/10/12

Incentive Measures: Further Refinement and Consideration of the Proposals for the Application of Ways and Means to Remove or Mitigate Perverse Incentives

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/10/INF/8

Synthesis report on information received from Parties, other governments and organizations on the removal or mitigation of perverse incentives

UNEP/CBD/COP/8/27

Cross-Cutting Issues Progress Report and Consideration of Proposals for Future Action: Protected Areas, Incentive Measures, Alien Species that Threaten Ecosystems, Habitats or Species, Impact Assessment, Liability and Redress, Biodiversity and Climate Change

UNEP/CBD/COP/8/27/ADD1

Incentive Measures: Compilation of suggestions on the development of definitions on incentive measures

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/8

Incentive Measures: Proposals on the Application of Positive Incentive Measures and their Integration Into Relevant Programmes, Policies or Strategies

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/9

Incentive Measures: Proposals on the Application of Tools for Valuation of Biodiversity and Biodiversity Resources and Functions

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/INF/8

Incentive Measures: An Exploration of Tools and Methodologies for Valuation of Biodiversity and Biodiversity Resources and Functions

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/INF/11

Incentive Measures: An Analysis of Existing and New Instruments that Provide Positive Incentives

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/INF/15

Synthesis Report On Information Received From Parties, Other Governments And Organizations On Non-Monetary Positive Incentive Measures and on the Application of Methodologies for the Assessment of Values of Biodiversity and its Functions

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/12

In-Depth Review of the Programme of Work on Incentive Measures - Summary of views, experiences and options provided by Parties

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/12/ADD1

In-Depth Review of the Work on Incentive Measures - Synthesis report of information on incentive measures provided by Parties in the third national reports

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/12/ADD2

In-Depth Review of the Programme of Work on Incentive Measures (Addendum)

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/INF/8

Compilation of Views, Experiences, and Options in the Implementation of the Programme of Work on Incentive Measures

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/INF/9

Terms of Reference for a Study on How Monitoring Can Support the Implementation of Valuation Tools and Positive Incentive Measures

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/INF/38

Compilation of Views, Experiences, and Options in the Implementation of the Programme of Work on Incentive Measures

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/INF/38/ADD1

Compilation of Views, Experiences, and Options in the Implementation of the Programme of Work on Incentive Measures

UNEP/CBD/COP/10/24

Incentive Measures (Article 11): Information and Good-Practice Cases from Different Regions on the Identification and Removal or Mitigation of Perverse, and the Promotion of Positive, Incentive Measures

UNEP/CBD/COP/10/INF/17

How Monitoring Can Support the Implementation of Valuation Tools and Positive Incentive Measures - The International Dimension

UNEP/CBD/COP/10/INF/18

Incentive Measures (Article 11): Information and Good-Practice Cases from Different Regions on the Identification and Removal or Mitigation of Perverse, and the Promotion of Positive, Incentive Measures

UNEP/CBD/COP/10/INF/23

TEEB for Business Report

UNEP/CBD/COP/10/INF/24

TEEB for Policy-Makers: Responding to the Value of Nature

UNEP/CBD/COP/10/INF/25

TEEB for Local and Regional Policy-Makers (D3)

UNEP/CBD/COP/10/INF/31

Paying for Biodiversity: Enhancing the Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services