Knowledge base

This full Policy and Institutional Review (PIR) provides a comprehensive assessment of Kazakhstan’s biodiversity governance system, examining policies, institutions, and financial mechanisms that shape conservation outcomes. It highlights progress in environmental legislation and rising awareness but identifies persistent gaps in integrating biodiversity into national planning, enforcing regulations, and ensuring stable financing.

This full Biodiversity Expenditure Review, prepared under BIOFIN, provides a comprehensive analysis of how public, private, and civil society resources are allocated to biodiversity conservation in Kazakhstan. It covers both direct and indirect expenditures contributing to the protection of ecosystems, forests, water, and wildlife. The report shows that public funding remains the primary source of biodiversity finance, while private sector and NGO involvement is still limited, highlighting the need to diversify and expand investments to achieve national biodiversity goals.

Biodiversity loss is accelerating due to human activities, posing serious risks to ecosystems, economies, and societies. Adopted in 2022, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework sets ambitious targets to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, calling for coordinated action across all sectors. As public finance alone is insufficient, greater private sector engagement is critical. Businesses and financial institutions are increasingly expected to adopt nature-positive practices, assess and disclose nature-related risks, and align financial decision-making with global standards such as Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, International Sustainability Standards Board, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, responding also to growing consumer demand for sustainable and responsible practices.

The Policy and Institutional Review (PIR) and Biodiversity Expenditure Review (BER) in Kazakhstan provide a national diagnostic of how policies, institutions, and financial flows interact with biodiversity. They highlight gaps, strengths, and opportunities for reform, ensuring that biodiversity is better integrated into economic planning and decision-making. The findings support Kazakhstan’s efforts to meet the Global Biodiversity Framework and inform the alignment of financial systems with nature-positive development.

The Policy and Institutional Review (PIR) and Biodiversity Expenditure Review (BER) in Kazakhstan provide a national diagnostic of how policies, institutions, and financial flows interact with biodiversity. They highlight gaps, strengths, and opportunities for reform, ensuring that biodiversity is better integrated into economic planning and decision-making. The findings support Kazakhstan’s efforts to meet the Global Biodiversity Framework and inform the alignment of financial systems with nature-positive development.

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.  

В данной публикации рассматривается роль гендерных вопросов в развитии лесного сектора Казахстана. В ней представлены данные по социально-демографическим аспектам, относительно расширения возможностей женщин и укрепления семьи в использовании и сохранении лесных ресурсов.

Бұл жарияланымда Қазақстанның орман секторын дамытудағы гендерлік мәселелердің рөлі қарастырылады. Онда орман ресурстарын пайдалану мен сақтауда әйелдердің мүмкіндіктерін кеңейтуге және отбасын нығайтуға қатысты әлеуметтік-демографиялық аспектілер бойынша деректер ұсынылған.

This publication describes the role of gender issues in the development of the forest sector in Kazakhstan. It presents data on socio-demographic aspects related to the promotion of women's opportunities and strengthening the family in the use and conservation of forest resources.

According to studies conducted under the BIOFIN, the financial needs for the implementation of the Concept for conservation and sustainable use of the biodiversity of Kazakhstan are 285.9 billion KZT. The finance gap estimated in the framework of the study for biodiversity conservation in Kazakhstan is at least 157.7 billion KZT, or more than 50% of the total finance of biodiversity in the country. The dynamics of the state biodiversity financing are unstable and decreasing from year to year. A rough estimate of the amount of private investments is less than 2% of the total financing of biodiversity in Kazakhstan.

The implementation of BIOFIN global initiave Kazakhstan

The analysis of political and institutional frameworks for preserving biodiveristy covers trends in biodiversity in terms of forestry, fishery, hunting industry, agriculture, water management and industry.

The analysis considers the country's practice and policy in the development of those sectors through the prism of preserving biodiversity.