Biodiversity Finance Plan

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The Biodiversity Finance Plan for Rwanda is currently being developed. As a country that has experienced fluctuations in biodiversity expenses and low biodiversity mainstreaming in the natural resource sector, the Biodiversity Finance Plan will produce steps to implement a mix of finance solutions in order to expand and improve the country’s biodiversity finance and achieve national biodiversity targets.

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Incentives, Subsidies and Economic Instruments for Biodiversity in the Dominican Republic

Developed under BIOFIN, this study examines how existing economic incentives, subsidies, and financial instruments influence biodiversity and identifies opportunities to better align economic development with nature conservation. The assessment identifies 46 instruments with potential implications for biodiversity, including 15 that present opportunities for improvement or reform, 23 with potentially positive impacts, and eight potential public […]

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Dominican Republic’s Policy and Institutional Review

The Policy and Institutional Review (PIR), developed under BIOFIN in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, examines the Dominican Republic’s policy, institutional and financial landscape for biodiversity. The review identifies key stakeholders, policy and institutional gaps, and opportunities to strengthen biodiversity finance. It also explores potential financing mechanisms and opportunities to better […]

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Integrating Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) into Biodiversity Finance

This publication explores how Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) can serve as a biodiversity finance solution, helping countries mobilize resources while ensuring the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge. It provides a step-by-step approach for integrating ABS into national biodiversity finance plans and identifies financial instruments and investments needed […]

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Ecosystem Accounting in Armenia: Setting the Scene

Armenia has begun developing a national accounting system aligned with the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA), starting with water accounting. The Governmental Decision on the classification of land cover in RA (2019) initiated the first step toward ecosystem accounting by establishing extent accounts for land-cover classes. To support this move […]