Photograph by: Enric Sala, National Geographic
27 February 2025
A decision today in Rome on how to finance the global plan to address the unprecedented biodiversity crisis is very welcome after years of negotiations. In these turbulent times, it is inspiring to see 196 countries come together and overcome differences and national challenges to reach a shared solution. We are grateful to the Parties to the Convention who spent long hours this week to reach a compromise.
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11 February, 2025
In October 2024, countries from around the world convened in Cali, Colombia, at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The negotiations were intended to boost the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (K-M GBF), the historic plan for safeguarding nature that all countries agreed to in 2022. The meeting in Cali delivered some notable successes; however, the COP was adjourned with the resource mobilization strategy left unresolved.
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2nd November, 2024
Some issues were advanced at COP16, and COP President Colombia and Parties to the Convention deserve praise for making progress in a difficult negotiating atmosphere, particularly with the historic adoption of a subsidiary body for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, which empowers Indigenous peoples and local communities with a greater role in influencing the outcomes of the Convention, and for creating a mechanism that will finally make companies accountable for paying their fair share for the use of biodiversity (by advancing the sharing of benefits derived from the digital sequencing of information from genetic resources with the countries and people where they were acquired, particularly Indigenous peoples and local communities via a newly established Cali Fund).
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October 18th 2024
NEW data finds over half of all countries signed up to commit at least $20 billion (£15.6 billion) a year in international biodiversity finance are providing less than 50% of their ‘fair share’. ODI’s ‘fair share’ methodology was the first study to measure how much each individual developed country should be providing to developing countries in order to keep the commitment they made in the landmark 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Our new findings draw upon the OECD’s latest annual report, issued in September. The next edition of this series will be out in early 2025.
Read the full report here.
September 18, 2024
On September 18, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its annual report of the main trends in international biodiversity finance. In response to the report, Campaign for Nature issues the following statement and an analysis of the report to highlight encouraging trends, areas of concern and recommendations for moving forward.
Read the full statement here.
July 11 2024
By Mary Robinson - Two years ago, developed countries pledged to provide the Global South with at least $20 billion annually by 2025 to help preserve 30% of the world’s land and oceans. But a new report reveals that most countries have failed to contribute their fair share, severely impeding our ability to achieve crucial climate goals.
Read the full op-ed here.
10 July 2024
By Lord Zac Goldsmith - We’re now less than one year away from that target deadline and new research from the ODI, commissioned by the Campaign for Nature, finds that unfortunately we are a long way off. According to the latest figures available from the OECD only two countries were paying their fair share of this funding that we agreed to, and the UK is not one of them. On the contrary we are some way from keeping our word and doing our part.
Read the full op-ed here.
19 June, 2024
By Mike Rann - Australia should be proud that we are contributing significantly more than the likes of the UK, Canada or Switzerland, but now we need a last push to meet our commitments. A crucial new report by the ODI, commissioned by the Campaign for Nature, shows the scale of the global challenge. It’s one that Australia is uniquely positioned to help solve.
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June 20, 2024
New ODI research has found that only two out of 28 developed countries were contributing their fair share of an internationally agreed commitment to provide $20 billion per year in biodiversity finance to developing countries, with most of them needing to at least double their funding to help halt and reverse biodiversity loss across our planet. With just months to go until the agreed deadline, this report is sounding the alarm for an urgent and significant increase in nature funding.
Read the full report and our recommendations here.
April 22, 2024
The CfN Global Steering Committee constitutes the highest-profile political group working to safeguard nature. This esteemed group of former heads of state, ministers, diplomats, and scientists has tirelessly championed the global goal to protect and conserve at least 30% of the world’s lands and waters by 2030. Against the backdrop of increasingly concerning headlines regarding climate change and nature loss, they are urging G7 leaders to prioritize the delivery of commitments made to invest in nature. The full letter can be read here.
19 March, 2024
In January this year, Campaign for Nature, a U.S.-based advocacy group, came out with a report critiquing this new scheme. “We wrote this paper because we didn’t see enough concerns being raised in civil society,” says Mark Opel, finance lead at Campaign for Nature.
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11 January, 2024
Biodiversity credit markets risk distracting governments from their role in financing nature by taking up limited time and capacity, the non-profitCampaign for Nature has claimed in a paper. “Inflated” claims on the potential scale of voluntary biodiversity credit markets could result in governments abdicating their public responsibilities for nature, the campaign group said. Mark Opel, the conservation finance adviser at Campaign for Nature, said: “Biodiversity credits … enable magical thinking that somehow innovative finance is going to come to the rescue and meet the promises in the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), without any additional government changes in policy.”
Full article here.
15 December, 2023
One year ago today the world agreed to a landmark plan – the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) – to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030. The plan was headlined by the science-based target to protect or conserve at least 30 percent of the planet’s land and ocean by 2030 (30x30), marking the most ambitious global nature conservation strategy ever established. The plan also stressed the critical role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as stewards of nature and set finance targets to close the biodiversity finance gap, including a near term target to increase international biodiversity finance to at least $20 billion per year by 2025.
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29 November, 2023
By Former President Mary Robinson and Rita El Zaghloul, HAC for N&P Director - We currently face two urgent crises – nature loss and climate change – and both pose catastrophic risks to humanity. The two issues are inextricably linked. We can’t address the climate crisis without nature, and we can’t address the nature crisis without drastically cutting emissions.
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23 November 2023
By Hailemariam Desalegn and Thomas Crowther - We can’t address the climate crisis without nature, and you can’t address the nature crisis without cutting emissions. Despite there now being a growing recognition of the critical importance of nature, it often remains in the backwaters of global climate discussions.
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