This report examines six mechanisms that can be used to scale-up financing for biodiversity conservation and … sustainable use and to help meet the 2011-20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. The mechanisms are environmental fiscal reform, payments … for ecosystem services, biodiversity offsets, green markets, biodiversity in climate change funding, and biodiversity in …

for one of the defining global challenges of our time: the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, which underpin … nearly all of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Transformative changes are needed to ensure biodiversity conservation … and business case for urgent and ambitious action on biodiversity. It presents a preliminary assessment of current …

Biodiversity and ecosystem services provide tangible benefits for society, such as food provisioning, water … human health, well being and economic growth. Yet biodiversity is declining worldwide and, in some areas, this loss is … accelerating. The need for policies that promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services is …

services. In particular, it focuses on mobilizing market-based repayable financing (such as loans, bonds and equity) as a way … rapidly evolving global context and to the ongoing financial and economic crisis, and considers how innovation in financing …

, policies to support family carers, long-term care workers, financing arrangements, long-term care insurance, and getting better …

The publication "provides an overview of the disaster risk assessment and financing practices of a broad range of … economies relative to guidance elaborated in G20/OECD Framework for Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing. Based on survey …