Excutive Summary of the Polices and Institutional Review conducted in Sri Lanka identifies supportive factors as well as factors that hinder the achievement of national biodiversity targets. The full report of PIR discuss these aspects in detail. 

Feasibility Study on Pasture Use Fee -  Report on Policy and Legislative Framework 

Environmental Economic Valuation Review -Easy Access Guide is a compilation of web links to published research reports on Environmental Valuation researches conducted in Sri Lanka. For more information on the methodology and the results of the compilation exercise please refer to the Environmental Economic Valuation Review Report. BIOFIN Sri Lanka team acknowledge the voluntary contribution of many researchers to develop this guide.

Environmental Economic Valuation Review was conducted to compile a list of environmental valuations conducted in Sri Lanka. Even though various researchers have been conducting environmental valuation researches, there was no compilation of the researches so most of the practitioners could not access these information. This document describes the methodology adopted and a list of researches. Please refer to the EEVR Sri Lanka -Easy Access Guide for web links to the published researches. BIOFIN Sri Lanka team appreciates the contributions of researchers who voluntarily contributed to this effort.   

This document is a summary of the Environmental Economic Valuation Review compiled by the BIOFIN project in Sri Lanka. BIOFIN Sri Lanka team acknowledges the voluantary contributions of many researchers to compile this document. This effort will facilitate development practitioners to use environmental valuation research results for decision making processes in future. 

Proposed methodology & Institutional mechanisms to determine pasture use fees  

BIOFIN is launching a series of webinars on private lands conservation that will feature examples such as conservation easements, customary and collective property conservation, and Private Protected Areas (PPAs). This first session will focus on conservation easements in the US. Conservation easements are legally binding agreements between private landowners and non-profit land trusts or government to protect conservation values of a property. A new analysis from Colorado State University (CSU) found that each dollar invested by the state for these easements produced benefits of between $4 and $12 for Coloradans.

The webinar speaker, Andrew Seidl, is a co-author of the study and a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at CSU as well as a Senior Technical Advisor for BIOFIN. The Webinar will focus on the main lessons learnt from the mechanism's evolution and implementation in the US. The strengths, weaknesses and risks will be presented as well as relevant examples of implementation and the return on investment of such mechanism for the region of Colorado.

Facilitator: Marco Arlaud - Environmental Finance Expert for UNDP-BIOFIN

Speakers: Andrew Seidl - Professor at CSU and Senior Technical Advisor for UNDP-BIOFIN.

This Inception Report presents the results of Inception Phase of the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) project in Viet Nam. The report summarizes (i) the need for biodiversity financing under the global framework of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the general approach of the global BIOFIN initiative (chapter 1); (ii) the rationale for the BIOFIN project in Viet Nam, summary of its planned activities, implementation arrangements and detailed work plan (chapter 2); (iii) the Inception Workshop, specifically presentations on BIOFIN globally, regional experiences and Viet Nam initiative as well as the technical studies committed - Policy and Institutional Review (PIR), Biodiversity Expenditure Review (BER), and Financial Needs Assessment (FNA) – and initial findings, comments and recommendations on project implementation received (chapter 3).

As a means of keeping stakeholders informed of the Biodiversity Finance Initiative's (BIOFIN) progress in Belize, please find attached the first of many Environmental Briefs to be developed and circulated by the BIOFIN Team.

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. 

Mainstreaming Biodiversity