Knowledge base

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.

Based on detailed assessments done in consultation with technical experts, the annual average financial requirement for implementing the National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) is estimated to be nearly USD 16.5 billion (2017-18 to 2021-22). Annual average gap in available public resources for implementing the NBAP is estimated to be nearly USD 6.5 billion for the period of 2017-18 to 2021-22. Based on the FNA and BER exercises, some of the priority areas for enhancing biodiversity finance include: Strengthening and Integration of In-Situ Conservation, Regulation of Invasive Alien Species Introduction and their Management, Development and Integration of Biodiversity Database, Valuation of Goods and Services provided by Biodiversity and Use of Economic Instruments and Decision-making processes & International Cooperation.

Building on the business case for biodiversity, Thailand aims to fill the financing gap for biodiversity by implementing the right scale and mix of financing solutions, enhancing traditional finance mechanisms and introducing innovative financing mechanisms. 

The Plan looks forward to delivering a prioritised set of biodiversity finance solutions – seizing this opportunity to address thematic areas of intervention by recommending new partnerships and finance mechanisms for investing in biodiversity. The prioritised biodiversity finance solutions in the Plan are complementary and offer a combination of system and site level sustainable financing, policy changes, and other incentive mechanisms. This can be summarised as follows:

1. Sustainable Tourism Finance Solution: Increasing sources of revenue for safeguarding biodiversity (coral reef rehabilitation) and environmental management (waste management) through the sufficient management of established financial mechanism (the establishment of biodiversity conservation fund)

2. Wildlife and Protected Areas Finance Solution: Deployment of conservation vehicle license plates to support wildlife conservation in Thailand (with pilot for tiger conservation at the Western Forest Complex)

3. Government Budget Finance Solution: Enhancing effectiveness and biodiversity impact of local budgets in Thailand

4. Private Sector Finance Solution: Mobilising the private sector and impact investment in support of biodiversity

Based on technical consultations and guided by the BIOFIN Workbook, a customized methodology has been developed  in India for assessing the current and projected levels of biodiversity-attributable expenditures in the country and to assess financial needs for implementing the NBAP. As a result of research, analysis and a wide range of consultations and validation exercises, the BER process in India has mapped 116 schemes of 24 central line ministries and 29 departments having varied degree of relevance with biodiversity.

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.

The implementation of BIOFIN global initiave Kazakhstan

El presente documento es el resultado de un trabajo conjunto entre el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo a través de su iniciativa BIOFIN, el Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, The Nature Conservancy -TNC- y la Asociación Nacional de Empresarios de Colombia -ANDI-, (en adelante La Alianza), con el objetivo de avanzar de manera colectiva en el desarrollo de herramientas y mecanismos que faciliten la gestión integral de la biodiversidad.

En el marco de este trabajo, se identificó la necesidad de sectores y autoridades, de contar con lineamientos para mejorar la efectividad de las compensaciones en los proyectos lineales, que se desarrollan en este documento a través de los siguientes capítulos:

1. Introducción
2. Contexto de los proyectos lineales
3. Barreras y oportunidades de gestión
4. Estudio de caso: Gasoducto en el Caribe Colombiano
5. Referencias internacionales de aplicación de las compensaciones  
6. Consideraciones finales, que integran lineamientos la implementación de compensaciones, hacia la conservación de la biodiversidad, garantizando el cumplimiento legal empresarial.