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Insurance can play a crucial role in biodiversity conservation by providing financial protection against risks to natural assets, incentivizing sustainable practices, and securing key investments.

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In 2022, countries adopted new global biodiversity targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), revisiting many goals that had gone unachieved or underachieved over the past decade.

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Global Biodiversity Expenditure (GLOBE) is a taxonomy that categorizes all potential public expenditures for biodiversity.

The taxonomy consists of two components:

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The BIOFIN Workbook 2024 provides detailed guidance to design and implement national biodiversity finance plans.  These are not mere plans. They set out a process to engage a coalition of actors around the issue of biodiversity finance for an extended time.

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At the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity 15 (CBD COP 15) in 2022, countries agreed to review and update their National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans

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Well-intentioned subsidies aimed at socio-economic goals can have unintended negative impacts on the environment, including biodiversity. The BIOFIN team has developed a step-by-step guide to repurpose such subsidies and improve their positive impacts on people and nature.

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The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) calls for a whole-of-society approach to halting and reversing nature loss.

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The Little Book of Investing in Nature provides an essential overview of the area of biodiversity finance at a time when governments and international negotiators are urgently seeking pragmatic solutions for the twin crises of climate change and the loss of nature.

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Biodiversity finance solutions have the potential to unlock a better future for people and the planet, but they can only work when partners from all levels come together. This collection of 11 stories demonstrates the power and sheer variety of biodiversity finance solutions being implemented across the world. 

Each story, authored by a partner working alongside UNDP-BIOFIN, offers an insight into how biodiversity finance solutions help put us on a path to a nature-positive future. From community leaders to mayors, from national park Directors to government partners, the authors speak to the power of biodiversity finance solutions and how they are protect and restore nature while also boosting economies more sustainably.  

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The Biodiversity Plan for Sri Lanka presents a detailed and prioritized set of financial solutions to achieve nationally set biodiversity targets within the period of 2018-2024.It showcase 13 different solutions that could be used in an innovative way to bridge the existing financial resource gap.

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BIOFIN assessed the resources requirement to achieve national biodiversity targets of Sri Lanka till 2024. This brochure summarizes the information on resources requirement and proposed financial solutions to bridge the gap between existing situation and the best case scenario. 

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BIOFIN assessed the resources requirement to achieve national biodiversity targets of Sri Lanka till 2024. This brochure summarizes the information on resources requirement and proposed financial solutions to bridge the gap between existing situation and the best case scenario. 

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BIOFIN assessed the resources requirement to achieve national biodiversity targets of Sri Lanka till 2024. This brochure summarizes the information on resources requirement and proposed financial solutions to bridge the gap between existing situation and the best case scenario. 

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Sri Lankan FNA estimated the additional financial requirement (assuming that the government will maintain its current level of investments for the next six years) to implement four national level action plans (including NBSAP) which contained biodiversity related outputs. Altogether Sri Lanka needs approximately 31 Billion LKR (190 million USD) within next seven years.

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Biodiversity Expenditure Review in Sri Lanka reviewed the 2010-2015 period to assess the investments made on the biodiversity sector. It revealed the government has increased investments on biodiversity by 125% during the period but still couldn't facilitate the full achievement of national biodiversity targets. Annual projected investment from the government side is approximately 7 billion LKR which is equivalent to 45 million USD.

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Excutive Summary of the Polices and Institutional Review conducted in Sri Lanka identifies supportive factors as well as factors that hinder the achievement of national biodiversity targets. The full report of PIR discuss these aspects in detail. 

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Environmental Economic Valuation Review was conducted to compile a list of environmental valuations conducted in Sri Lanka. Even though various researchers have been conducting environmental valuation researches, there was no compilation of the researches so most of the practitioners could not access these information. This document describes the methodology adopted and a list of researches. Please refer to the EEVR Sri Lanka -Easy Access Guide for web links to the published researches. BIOFIN Sri Lanka team appreciates the contributions of researchers who voluntarily contributed to this effort.   

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This document is a summary of the Environmental Economic Valuation Review compiled by the BIOFIN project in Sri Lanka. BIOFIN Sri Lanka team acknowledges the voluantary contributions of many researchers to compile this document. This effort will facilitate development practitioners to use environmental valuation research results for decision making processes in future. 

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Environmental Economic Valuation Review -Easy Access Guide is a compilation of web links to published research reports on Environmental Valuation researches conducted in Sri Lanka. For more information on the methodology and the results of the compilation exercise please refer to the Environmental Economic Valuation Review Report. BIOFIN Sri Lanka team acknowledge the voluntary contribution of many researchers to develop this guide.

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