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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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Este documento es una primera aproximación al análisis de los incentivos perversos sobre la biodiversidad en Colombia, el cual permite establecer bases para la generación de discusiones que permita dar cumplimiento a los compromisos internacionales adquiridos en materia ambiental. Este documento presenta los resultados en dos fases: la primera, a nivel nacional a partir de análisis de información bibliográfica, estadística y cartográfica para identificar incentivos con potenciales impactos negativos sobre la biodiversidad y generar recomendaciones para la implementación de una hoja de ruta de reforma; y la segunda, un análisis de la incidencia de los incentivos en los servicios ecosistémicos de la región de La Mojana, que consideró información técnica, estadística y cartográfica, complementada con un ejercicio de levantamiento de información en campo a partir de talleres y entrevistas estructuradas y semiestructuradas a las comunidades, asociaciones de campesinos, productores e instituciones públicas presentes en el territorio a fin de conocer sus apreciaciones sobre los cambios en los servicios ecosistémicos más importantes para el desarrollo de sus actividades.

Para el desarrollo de este análisis, el PNUD a través de su iniciativa BIOFIN en Colombia, contó con la asesoría técnica del Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural – Rimisp en alianza estratégica con la Organización Colombia Rural y el Centro de Investigación en Sistemas Agroalimentarios de la Universidad de Los Andes. Además, contó con los análisis técnicos proporcionados por el Programa Mojana “Clima y Vida” que el PNUD viene implementando con recursos del Fondo Verde del Clima y el gobierno nacional en Colombia.

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The biodiversity finance landscape is changing. Both domestic and international financial flows have grown and the range of financing instruments, providers and delivery mechanisms now available is significantly wider than ever before. This online “catalogue” is a comprehensive list of these instruments, tools and strategies that are applicable to the field of biodiversity finance. Each catalogue entry is a mechanism or “finance solution” and includes a brief description as well as links to guidance material or case studies.

The searchable catalogue below provides a listing of all solutions profiled. Solutions can also be searched by the financial results they produce, the financial instrument they rely upon, whether they are public or private finance, and the economic sector in which their use is most prevalent.

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La Iniciativa Finanzas de la Biodiversidad (BIOFIN) del Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo en México, en conjunto con la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Territorial de Jalisco, desarrollaron el Análisis del gasto público a favor de la biodiversidad 2019-2022. El estudio presenta el monto y análisis de los gastos de la administración pública estatal orientados a la conservación y el uso sostenible de la biodiversidad. 

Adicionalmente, este documento se alinea con los instrumentos de política ambiental estatal “Jalisco con Bosques”, la Estrategia Estatal sobre Biodiversidad de Jalisco y la Estrategia del Estado de Jalisco para la Integración de la Biodiversidad en sectores productivos.

El Análisis del Gasto Público en Biodiversidad en Jalisco representa una fuente de información fundamental para el Gobierno del estado para conocer los recursos de la cuenta pública que se asignan y se ejecutan para acciones dirigidas a favor de la biodiversidad, por parte de todas las dependencias gubernamentales independientemente si son o no de carácter ambiental.

Esta información también permite identificar las brechas de financiamiento y su relación con los vacíos de conservación. Así, se fortalece la consecución de metas estatales relacionadas con el medio ambiente y permite realizar ajustes en la administración pública para lograr mejores resultados en el territorio.
Como parte de los principales resultados de este estudio destacan:

  • Gasto en biodiversidad por año en 2019 y 2020.
    • Se identifica un incremento ligero entre un año y otro: en 2019 el gasto fue de $655’889,395 mientras que en 2022 fue de $739’366,831 pesos mexicanos.
  • Gasto en biodiversidad como porcentaje del Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) estatal.
    • El gasto en biodiversidad estatal respecto del PIB estatal tuvo una proporción del 0.05 y 0.07 por ciento en 2019 y 2020 respectivamente, mostrando un ligero incremento entre año y año.

La elaboración de este análisis contó con la participación de diferentes instituciones del estado como la Secretaría de la Hacienda Pública, la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Territorial de Jalisco y el Fondo Estatal de Protección al Ambiente de Jalisco. Asimismo, en su elaboración participó el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) como asesor en la consolidación de cuentas ambientales.  

Finalmente, este análisis servirá para entender la distribución del gasto y poder identificar los instrumentos de financiamiento de carácter fiscal, regulatorio, de mercado y de cooperación internacional que contribuyan a cerrar la brecha estatal de financiamiento para la biodiversidad. 

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Resource mobilization strategy for the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. BIOFIN in Colombia.

What is biodiversity financing?

Initiatives that promote unsustainable economic growth that generate short-term profits, the limited presence of institutions in the territory, the absence of governance mechanisms for natural resources, the lack of knowledge and access to technology, hunger and social inequality, are some of the factors that have an impact on the increase of conflicts that accelerate the loss of natural capital.

Therefore, it is necessary to formulate and implement comprehensive programs, plans and projects that include environmental, social and economic approaches, with intersectoral responsibility, public and private sector participation and that empower communities through resilient livelihoods with gender equity.

In order to make visible the importance of natural capital in sustainable development and work on flows for financing the restoration and conservation of biodiversity, since 2012 the United Nations Development Programme UNDP has been implementing the Biodiversity Finance Initiative BIOFIN, as a technical assistance process to accelerate the resource mobilization strategy in the countries participating in the Conference of the Parties COP 10, held in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010 and in which the Aichi Targets were created. 

Currently, UNDP's BIOFIN initiative is present in more than 42 countries worldwide and works on the formulation and implementation of about 140 financial solutions to make visible, monitor and increase the mobilization of public, private and international cooperation resources for biodiversity management.

Biodiversity finance "is the practice of raising and managing capital, and using financial and economic incentives to contribute to the sustainable management of biodiversity" (BIOFIN Handbook, 2018). In this sense, biodiversity financing involves multiple actors, from government at all levels of management, from national to territorial; as well as the private sector, communities and international cooperation.

In Colombia, the BIOFIN initiative has been present since 2015.

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在各国政府和国际谈判代表亟需切实解决气候变化和自然环境丧失的双重危机之际,《投资自然指津》对生物多样性金融领域提供了重要概述。本书可为相关领域的政策制定者和投资者解决这一问题提供简单易行的指导。

这本生物多样性投资小书阐明了创造、定向和优化调整生物多样性融资机制的具体实施步骤,同时强调了避免有损赖以生存自然资源的投资行为的重要性。

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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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目前,BIOFIN40个国家开展工作,与政府、民间社会、脆弱社区和私营部门合作,促进对自然的投资。 

支持制定全面的生物多样性融资计划,借鉴150多个融资解决方案,以助力确保人类和地球未来的繁荣。BIOFIN的解决方案旨在通过更好利用现有资源,将资源从有损生物多样性的领域重新分配到对其有益的领域。

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El objetivo de este segundo documento es doble:
a. Evaluar las capacidades de los actores y el arreglo institucional de Ecuador para la adopción del marco de divulgación de riesgos relacionados con la naturaleza (TNFD).
b. Proponer un arreglo institucional y un plan de acción para reducir la brecha de capacidades locales para implementar el marco de divulgación financieras relacionadas con la naturaleza.

Guidelines

Guía Metodológica para la incorporación del Mecanismo de Retribución por Servicios Ecosistémicos, como una estrategia de sostenibilidad financiera, en los proyectos de Infraestructura Natural promovidos por la Autoridad de Reconstrucción con Cambios e iniciativas en gestión de riesgos de desastres - próxima publicación

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From late 2021 to early 2022, UNDP, with funding from the Government of Italy, conducted a study of five emerging economies (Indonesia, India, Mexico, Zambia, and Costa Rica) with a view to assessing their readiness for nature-related disclosures.

The studies were based on ten questions and data collected through interviews and questionnaires with regulators and supervisors, complemented by desk reviews. At the country level, the studies were led by UNDP-BIOFIN (Biodiversity Finance Initiative) country teams. This report presents a summary of results to offer decision-makers and experts insights into the practical application of nature-related disclosures. 

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El presente documento identifica y evalúa el marco legal, institucional y de capacidades de Ecuador para la adopción del Marco de Divulgaciones Financieras sobre Riesgos asociados con la Naturaleza (TNFD).

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The fact that Colombia is the country with the highest biodiversity per square kilometer and has around 14% of the world's biodiversity, implies a very important challenge in terms of mobilizing resources for the conservation of biodiversity and its ecosystem services, as well as to make these an engine for developing sustainably. This is an important task from all levels of decisions, from national government until local government.

In this oportunity, BIOFIN Colombia shows resultas from the biodiversity expenditure review at local level, for territorial entities.

During 2012-2021, territorial entities (departments, municipalities and the capital district) have contributed close to 34% of public spending on biodiversity.

During this same period, the territorial entities with the greatest investment in biodiversity are located in Antioquia, Bogotá D.C., Bolívar, Atlántico and Cundinamarca; while the entities with less investment are located in Guainía, Vaupés and Vichada.

The actions of the territorial entities in the management of biodiversity have been concentrated in projects of "Conservation, protection, restoration and use of natural resources and the environment" and the "Acquisition of land for water reserves and natural reserve areas".

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