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Biodiversity finance
A new US$2 million Challenge will help up to 10 countries bring biodiversity into their national budgets and reform subsidies that harm Nature. Countries can start preparing now.
Halfway to 2030, the Kunming Dialogue showed that countries agree on what is holding back the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The harder question is how to overcome those barriers.
At the 11th Pacific Islands Conference for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, Pacific youth set out four asks for leaders. Their asks cover decision-making, finance, Indigenous knowledge and integrated action on biodiversity, climate and ocean. The NBSAP Accelerator Partnership provided further assistance for youth participation in the conference.
Seventy participants from across Thailand’s government, research and private sectors gathered in Bangkok this week to turn shared biodiversity and climate commitments into coordinated, investable action on the ground.
While governments write NBSAPs, non-state actors, including Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women’s organizations, youth networks, and the private sector, are among the ones who can successfully deliver them. Side events at SBSTTA-28 & SBI-7 showed what sustained engagement and implementation can look like.
A youth fund in Ecuador is backing projects that link local action in Biosphere Reserves to national and global biodiversity commitments, with one grantee selected per reserve.
Sierra Leone’s Environment Protection Agency, in partnership with the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership, held four regional engagements bringing together 242 participants from across the country to build technical capacity, develop district implementation roadmaps, and sign commitment pledges to advance NBSAP 3.0 implementation.
The Spotlight Series profiles NBSAP Accelerator Partnership members and suppliers who are actively accelerating the implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) under the Global Biodiversity Framework. Each feature examines the specific capabilities, experience, and implementation approaches that members and suppliers bring, and how these align with needs and implementation gaps identified by countries.
Peru’s Ministry of Environment convened a macroregional workshop in Chiclayo bringing together more than 60 representatives from 13 subnational governments to strengthen the alignment of Subnational Biodiversity Strategies with the national NBSAP and accelerate implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at the territorial level.
The Government of Colombia and the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership convened the second whole-of-government workshop to strengthen implementation of Colombia’s 2030 Biodiversity Action Plan, bringing together more than 30 representatives from key national institutions to develop project proposals aligned with Colombia’s six National Biodiversity Targets.