The brochure for the BIOFIN Extended Phase 2 in India, running from 2021-2025.

El presente documento pretende guiar a las Instituciones Cooperativas de ahorro y Crédito (CAC), en la construcción de elementos pragmáticos en la incorporación de metodología ampliamente aceptada sobre administración de riesgos ambientales y sociales (SARAS).

Biodiversity financing --crowdfunding with Krungthai bank creating livelihood for boat owners who have lost jobs in COVID to redeploy to marine conservation, cash-for-work programme with conservation element at Koh Tao Island, Surat Thani province.

A Financial Needs Assessment is a comprehensive estimate and analysis of the financial resources needed to fully implement the biodiversity-related activities in a country to achieve its national and sub-national biodiversity targets. By comparing the expenditure on biodiversity as identified in the Biodiversity Expenditure Review to the financial needed analyses based on organisations sampled, the financing gap is estimated to better inform the development of the Biodiversity Finance Plan which helps prioritising of biodiversity strategies and actions and build strong case for resource mobilisation.  

The Biodiversity Finance Plan builds upon the Biodiversity Expenditure Review and the Financial Needs Assessment, is an 8-year resource mobilisation plan to make biodiversity financing a national priority and biodiversity needs are fully addressed in a timely and appropriate manner by 2025. It proposed nine innovative solutions to address biodiversity financing needs and achieve the National Policy on Biological Diversity. 

Inception Report on 'Developing a resource mobilisation strategy for implementing a State Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan of Uttarakhand and demonstration of select financial solutions for conservation of the snow leopard landscape, Gangotri-Govind and Darma Byans Valley in Uttarakhand, under the GoI-UNDP project on SECURE Himalaya.

The "Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP) for Himachal Pradesh and the Resource Mobilisation Strategy for Implementing the BSAP with Special Focus on Lahaul-Pangi and Kinnaur Landscapes” covers important issues around conservation of biodiversity in Himachal Pradesh through an exhaustive research including field visits and stakeholder consultations. The empirical analysis and investigations have led to a number policy recommendations which will be extremely useful to the central government and the government of Himachal Pradesh in their efforts to improve the status of biodiversity, natural resources and ecosystem services in the state and the identified landscapes

Identification and analysis of the key building blocks for a Biodiversity Finance Plan in India, including identification of revenue sources and type of instruments used to mobilise capital for biodiversity at the central government level and mapping revenue flows to the central government from biodiversity. 

The state of Uttarakhand is most vulnerable to climate mediated risks. Mountainous regions are vulnerable to climate change and have shown “above average warming” in the 20th century. The Uttarakhand Action Plan on Climate Change (UAPCC) has been formulated in accordance with the principles and guidelines of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). The UAPCC integrates the action plan of Uttarakhand with the ongoing and proposed developmental programmes in the state, and in tandem with the eight national missions along with the principles and guidelines listed out in the NAPCC.

The “Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP) of Sikkim and the Resource Mobilisation Strategy for implementing the BSAP with the focus on Khangchendzonga – Upper Teesta Valley” covers important issues around conservation of biodiversity in Sikkim, India, undertaken through exhaustive research including desk based, empirical and policy research, field visits and stakeholder consultations. The empirical analysis and investigations have enabled a number of policy recommendations which will be extremely useful to the central government and the government of Sikkim in their efforts to improve the status of biodiversity, natural resources and ecosystem services in the state and the identified landscapes.

A Biodiversity Expenditure Review is focused on all types of expenditure contributing to sustainable biodiversity protection and management. Along with the public-sector expenditures, private sector spending and spending by international donor organizations, and NGOs are analyzed. Based on these analyses, there are calculated total expenditure figures, useful to summarize the BD financing trends and status on national level. 

La biodiversidad, en su sentido más amplio, es la riqueza de la vida en la Tierra. En el Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CDB), se define como “la variabilidad de organismos vivos de cualquier fuente, incluidos, entre otras cosas, los ecosistemas terrestres y marinos y otros ecosistemas acuáticos y los complejos ecológicos de los que forman parte; comprende la diversidad dentro de cada especie, entre las especies y de los ecosistemas ”. La biodiversidad ocurre en todos los niveles –genético, especies y ecosistemas– y se ejemplifica comúnmente con la amplia variedad de especies de plantas, animales y microorganismos que existen en el planeta. Hasta la fecha se han descubierto y documentado alrededor de 1.8 millones de especies diferentes (Vié et al. 2009), pero este número apenas roza la superficie; la mejor estimación de trabajo del número total de especies en la Tierra, documentadas y sin documentar, es de alrededor de 8 millones, el 75% de las cuales son insectos (IPBES 2019).