The Little Biodiversity Finance Book is a guide to proactive investment in natural capital (PINC) and financing options for biodiversity and ecosystems services. Published by The Global Canopy Programme and launched at the UN Biodiversity Conference in Nagoya, Japan this autumn, it contains a comprehensive yet easily comprehensible overview of financial mechanisms of relevance to all three Rio Conventions. The authors –Charlie Parker (Global Canopy Programme) and Matt Cranford (London School of Economics), analyse new sources of finance that could raise up to USD 141 billion by 2020 to help meet the target of halting global biodiversity loss – provided there is strong coordination across the biodiversity, climate change and developments agendas.
The Global Mechanism, as a subsidiary body of the UNCCD with a focus on finance, is therefore proud to have made a small contribution to the foreword of the book, based on its experience of applying some of these mechanisms in national contexts to support countries’ integrated investment frameworks.
The GM believes that vision, an enabling institutional environment, and political will are essential for increasing the volume and the effectiveness of investments. It is therefore important that the Rio Conventions make the most of every opportunity to provide leadership and guidance – in a spirit of transparency, efficiency and harmony – to develop resource mobilization strategies in a broader sustainable development context.
We are sure that the Little Biodiversity Finance Book will facilitate understanding, encourage discussion, and inspire both decision makers and land users to support and adopt such mechanisms.
For more information:
Charlie Parker
c.parker (at) globalcanopy.org
