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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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El documento identifica y describe desde su rol funcional a los actores relacionados con la implementación de la Estrategia de Financiamiento de la Estrategia Nacional de Biodiversidad y su Plan de Acción al año 2020.

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El documento expone las fuentes potenciales de financiamiento de la Empresa Pública de Areas Protegidas y Agua, iniciativa que surgió como posibilidad al momento de fusionarse el Ministerio del Ambiente y la Secretaría Nacional del Agua.

Si bien la creación de la Empresa no se concretó, la propuesta de movilización de recursos financieros puede ser referente para otros modelos de gestión que se adopte para el Patrimonio de Areas Naturales del Estado Ecuatoriano.

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The following document presents the current status of the work undertaken by the BIOFIN project in Colombia. In it you will find our financial strategy, the main products and results for each BIOFIN component: the Policy and Institutional Review, the Biodiversity Expenditure Review, the Financial Needs Assessment, and the Biodiversity Finance Plan. Finally, it presents some recommendations for future activities.

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The following document presents the current status of the work undertaken by the BIOFIN project in Colombia. In it you will find our financial strategy, the main products and results for each BIOFIN component: the Policy and Institutional Review, the Biodiversity Expenditure Review, the Financial Needs Assessment, and the Biodiversity Finance Plan. Finally, it presents some recommendations for future activities.

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The following document presents the current status of the work undertaken by the BIOFIN project in Colombia. In it you will find our financial strategy, the main products and results for each BIOFIN component: the Policy and Institutional Review, the Biodiversity Expenditure Review, the Financial Needs Assessment, and the Biodiversity Finance Plan. Finally, it presents some recommendations for future activities.

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The following document presents the current status of the work undertaken by the BIOFIN project in Colombia. In it you will find our financial strategy, the main products and results for each BIOFIN component: the Policy and Institutional Review, the Biodiversity Expenditure Review, the Financial Needs Assessment, and the Biodiversity Finance Plan. Finally, it presents some recommendations for future activities.

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The following document presents the current status of the work undertaken by the BIOFIN project in Colombia. In it you will find our financial strategy, the main products and results for each BIOFIN component: the Policy and Institutional Review, the Biodiversity Expenditure Review, the Financial Needs Assessment, and the Biodiversity Finance Plan. Finally, it presents some recommendations for future activities.

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Aside from the inherent challenges associated with balancing numerous (sometimes competing, or even conflicting) objectives, PA managers often have limited guiding information at their disposal to set fees. This includes bench marking data on fees in similar attractions and in competing countries,  information about the PA offering, impression and expectations of visitors that determine their preferences and price points. Management authorities also increasingly relying on consumer research. Stated preference techniques (such as contingent valuation and choice experiments) as well as travel cost methods, which look at visitors’ willingness to pay (WTP), are particularly commonly used to inform PA pricing. Botswana had been no exception to the practice, this review combined most techniques appropriate to review and recommend new fees for Botswana protected areas. It also recommends revenue retention to support Botswana's efforts in responding to challenges such as its natural infrastructural maintenance and congestion along its wildlife hot spots areas. 

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Este manual esta concebido para facilitar la aplicación del marco legal vigente para la tarifa de autorizaciones de uso y aprovechamiento de agua cruda en el Ecuador. Surge como parte del proceso de asistencia técnica de BIOFIN a la Secretaría Nacional del Agua para contribuir a la conservación de la biodiversidad en cuencas hídricas.

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Este documento presenta una proyeccion de potenciales nuevos ingresos a partir del análisis de la fórmula de cálculo de la tarifa de agua cruda y el uso de un factor diferenciador. Incluye el análisis económico financiero del impacto en la recaudación tarifaria en Ecuador, asumiendo diferentes escenarios de aplicación.

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