destroying biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, posing significant but often overlooked risks to the economy, the financial … G7 and other countries in four key areas: measuring and mainstreaming biodiversity; aligning budgetary and fiscal policy … with biodiversity; embedding biodiversity in the financial sector; and improving biodiversity outcomes linked to …

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 …

Sub-national governments have a key role in delivering on national and international biodiversity commitments. Drawing … examines the policy instruments that subnational governments can leverage to deliver positive biodiversity outcomes. The paper … highlights, among other things, the need to: develop clear and measurable biodiversity targets at sub-national level; incorporate …

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 …

The importance of biodiversity valuation is widely understood in academia and is increasingly used in policy making and …), recognises that "economic valuation of biodiversity and biological resources is an important tool for well-targeted and … ethical valuation in the development of relevant incentive measures" (CBD COP Decision IV/10). Biodiversity valuation should …

All societies depend on biodiversity and biological resources, and policy-makers are increasingly aware that … development pressures are today generating unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss. The fact that biodiversity issues often …, is easy to disregard. The result is that biodiversity fails to compete on a level playing field in policy decisions with …

The private provision of biodiversity products and services is proving to be quite feasible in some circumstances. Some … biodiversity products and services are already being profitably marketed. Private markets also need to be supported by appropriate … public policies. This publication provides a conceptual framework for market creation in the biodiversity policy arena, as …