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Resources on biodiversity financing

Biodiversity

Last updated: 12/07/2022

Biodiversity financing

This webpage from the EC Directorate-General for Environment provides further details regarding biodiversity financing in the frame of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.

Biodiversity mainstreaming

This webpage describes how the EC is mainstreaming biodiversity in the EU budget.

CBD CHM

The Clearing-House Mechanism of the CBD makes publicly available the financial reports from all the Parties to the Convention. These reports include data on the Parties’ domestic and international financial flows, covering both expenditures directly and indirectly related to biodiversity.

First draft of a new global biodiversity framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030

The first detailed draft of a new global biodiversity framework, released in June 2021 by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), includes ambitious proposed targets for biodiversity financing.

OECD CRS

The Creditor Reporting System (CRS) is the central reporting system and database for development finance flows, such as official development assistance (ODA), from the member countries of the Development Assistance Committee, which brings together the major OECD aid donors. Biodiversity-relevant flows are identified through the Rio markers.

BIOFIN

The Biodiversity Finance Initiative, or BIOFIN, was set up by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide guidance and a methodological framework for countries to examine their levels of biodiversity finance and how these relate to national and international biodiversity targets.

eConservation

Developed by the JRC, eConservation provides information on biodiversity conservation projects from several large public donors worldwide via an interactive mapping interface. The application has been designed to help understand who is funding what and where.

AidData

AidData is currently the most comprehensive database providing information on foreign aid projects financed by most official donors since 1945, including on biodiversity. It includes data from the OECD Creditor Reporting System (CRS) as well as other sources.