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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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The Seychelles Policy and Institutional Review report represents the first assessment document for the country under the BIOFIN initiative. An extensive desk review of the legal and policy framework, pertaining to biodiversity with a focus on the financial provisions. 

The setting up of the BIOFIN Steering Committee which was co-chaired by the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change and at the time the Ministry of Finance, Trade and Blue economy, allowed for a thorough consultative process with stakeholders (for the PIR), and attendance by civil society representatives and key government officials involved in biodiversity conservation. 

 

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The Seychelles FNA  was in essence a Costing of the NBSAP 2011-2015 which amounts to SCR320 million.

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The Biodiversity Expenditure Review was the first of its kind in Seychelles. It estimated total expenditure on biodiversity across the Public Sector, NGOs and the Private Sector at an average SCR150 million per annum for the period 2011-2015. Of this amount an average of SCR100 million was expended by the Public Sector alone. It should be underscored that total spending on biodiversity was less than 2% of the total public sector budget.

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The Seychelles BFP aimed to present a coherent and comprehensive national approach to biodiversity finance, including a mix of finance solutions, by engaging the public sector, private sector and civil society, in support of the implementation of the current and future NBSAPs.

 

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