Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity

This OECD report (2020) provides a comprehensive overview and aggregate estimates of global biodiversity finance. It also examines government funding potentially harmful to biodiversity and offers...

This academic article by A. Waldron, A.O. Mooers, D.C. Miller et al. (2013) assembles a global database of annual conservation spending and develops a statistical model...

This academic article by D.C. Miller, A. Agrawal and J.T. Roberts (2013) presents the results of a comprehensive assessment of official donor assistance for biodiversity during 1980–2008, using...

This academic article by A. Balmford and T. Whitten (2003) compares the spatial distribution of the costs and benefits of tropical biodiversity conservation. It concludes that the funding gap should...

This brochure presents statistics on biodiversity-relevant economic instruments and the finance they mobilise, based on available data in the OECD’s database of Policy Instruments for the Environment (PINE).

This special report from the European Court of Auditors (2020) includes a review of the methodology for tracking biodiversity-related expenditure in the EU budget.

This report from the European Court of Auditors (2020) reviews the methodology for tracking climate spending in the EU budget and looks ahead to the post-2020 period.

This study (2018) presents the findings of the National Biodiversity Expenditure Review carried out in Ireland using the BIOFIN methodology. It provides a baseline from which expenditure can...

This study, prepared for the European Parliament by external experts (2020), analyses the methodologies used for tracking expenditure related to climate and biodiversity in the EU budget and suggests approaches for strengthening...

The second report of the CBD High-Level Panel on Global Assessment of Resources (2014) presents a broad assessment of the amount of funding needed to achieve all 20 Aichi targets...