Living in harmony
with nature
HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF
RESOURCES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE
STRATEGIC PLAN FOR BIODIVERSITY 2011-2020
Findings and Recommendations
Pyeongchang, 7 October 2014
Carlos M. Rodriguez
Chair of the High Level Panel
Introduction to the HighLevel Panel
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In 2012, the first High-Level Panel reported on ‘Resourcing the Aichi
Biodiversity Targets’ to COP-11:
It was estimated that one-off investments account for between 60% and
70% of the overall global resource needs for delivering the Targets over the
2013 to 2020 period.
Through simple addition of the resource requirements identified for each
Target, the costs for implementing the twenty Aichi Biodiversity Targets were
estimated at between US$ 150 billion and US$ 440 billion per year.
However, it is expected that these resource requirements neither should nor
could be met by biodiversity finance alone, and there is potential for
considerable synergies among the Targets, so that coordinated action could
substantially reduce the total estimate.
Results of the High-Level
Panel (Phase I)
Strategic Goal
A: Address the underlying
causes of biodiversity loss
by mainstreaming
biodiversity across
government and society
B: Reduce the direct
pressures on biodiversity
and promote sustainable
use
C: To improve the status of
biodiversity by safeguarding
ecosystems, species and
genetic diversity
D: Enhance the benefits to
all from biodiversity and
ecosystem services
E: Enhance implementation
through participatory
planning, knowledge
management and capacity
building
Target
1: Awareness raising
2: Biodiversity values
3: Incentives
4: Sustainable
consumption & production
5: Reducing habitat loss
(forests and wetlands)
6: Fisheries
7: Sustainable Agriculture,
Aquaculture and Forestry
8: Pollution
9: Invasive alien species
10: Coral reefs
11: Protected areas
(terrestrial and marine)
12: Species conservation
13: Genetic diversity
14: Ecosystem restoration
15: Restoration of forests
16: Nagoya Protocol
17: NBSAPs
18: Traditional knowledge
19: Science base
20: Mobilisation of financial
resources
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Investment needs (US$
million)
Recurrent expenditure
per annum (US$ million)
54
450 – 610
1,300 – 2,000
440 – 1,400
70 – 130
8 – 15
Average annual
expenditure (2013 –
2020) (US$ million)
280 – 890
100 – 160
170 – 270
55 – 107
8 – 15
12 – 23
152,300 – 288,800
13,300 – 13,700
39,200 – 52,100
129,900 – 292,200
800 – 3,200
16,900 – 40,000
20,800 – 21,700
10,700 – 11,000
13,200 – 13,600
77,600 – 772,700
34,100 – 43,900
600 – 960
24,400 – 42,700
21,005 – 50,100
6 – 10
35,400 – 139,200
23,300 – 52,900
80 – 130
66,100 – 626,400
970 – 6,700
9,200 – 85,000
–
550 – 1,400
30,000 – 299,900
100
55 – 313
114 – 1,100
210 – 340
1,800 – 4,200
3,400 – 4,800
15 – 17
–
6,400
–
110 – 560
210 – 340
1,400 – 1,600
3,400 – 4,800
80 – 190
3,750 – 37,500
6,400
7 – 39
50 – 170
210 – 340
1,600 – 2,100
10 – 79
3 – 20
4 – 30
Introduction to the HighLevel Panel
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In Decision XI/4, COP-11 welcomed the initial findings, and invited the Panel, in
collaboration with other relevant initiatives that could provide a more bottomup approach, to continue its work with a broadened composition and to report
back on the results of its work to COP-12.
The High-Level Panel has been expanded to create a regionally-balanced
Panel of fifteen members.
The High-Level Panel
Africa
Madagascar
Ms. Laurette H.
Rasoavahiny
Botswana
Dr. Hillary Masundire
South Africa
Mr. Fundisile Mketeni
Director
Conservation of Biodiversity and Protected Areas
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Senior Lecturer
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Botswana
Deputy Director General
Biodiversity and Conservation
Department of Environmental Affairs
Asia
Philippines
Ms. Rina Maria P.
Rosales
China
Mr. Wang Xin
India
Dr. A Damodaran
Resource Economist
Resources Environment Economic Center for Studies
Director
Foreign Economic Cooperation Office, Ministry of
Environmental Protection
Professor
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Management
Europe
Director
Sweden
Ms. Maria Schultz
The Resilience and Development Programme (SwedBio),
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Deputy Head of Department
Germany
Dr. Heidi Wittmer
Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research (UFZ)
Co-Chair
United Kingdom Prof. Sir Robert Watson
UK National Ecosystem Assessment
The High-Level Panel
JUSSCANNZ
Norway
Mr. Tom Rådahl
Canada
Dr. Ussif Rashid
Sumaila
South Korea
Dr. Tae Yong Jung
Secretary General
Ministry of the Environment
Director
Fisheries Centre and Fisheries Economics Research Unit,
University of British Columbia
Professor
Korea Development Institute (KDI)
School of Public Policy and Management
Latin America
Costa Rica
Mr. Carlos Manuel
Rodriguez
Brazil
Mr. Roberto Brandão
Cavalcanti
Mexico
Ms. Mariana Bellot
Rojas
Vice President and Senior Advisor
Global Policy
Conservation International
Secretary
Biodiversity and Forests
Ministry of Environment
Director General
General Directorate for Institutional Development and
Promotion, National Commission for Protected Areas
REPRESENTATIVES OF UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Senior Biodiversity Specialist
GEF Secretariat Mr. Mark Zimsky
Natural Resources
Economist
OECD
Dr. Katia Karousakis
Climate Change, Biodiversity and Development
Secretariat
Division
TEEB Secretariat Dr. Salman Hussain
Coordinator
Head of the Biodiversity Programme
Mr. Nik Sekhran
Bureau for Development Policy
UNDP
Mr. Yves de Soye
BIOFIN Manager
Ms. Jamison Ervin
Technical Advisor
Director
Mr. Bakary Kante
Division of Environmental Law and Conventions
UNEP
Programme Officer
Mr. Alphonse Kambu
Division of Environmental Law and Conventions
World Bank
Dr. Valerie Hickey
Biodiversity Specialist
RESEARCH TEAM REPRESENTATIVES
Senior Programme Officer
UNEP-WCMC
Ms. Sarah Smith
Conventions and Policy Support
Mr. Matt Rayment
Principal Consultant
ICF GHK
Ms. Mavoureen Conway
Senior Consultant
SECRETARIAT OF THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias Executive Secretary
Principal Officer
Mr. Ravi Sharma
Technical Support for Implementation
Mr. Tristan Tyrrell
HLP Project Manager
India
Mr. Hem Pande
Japan
Mr. Rikiya Konishi
Norway
Ms. Tone Solhaug
Mr. Jeremy Eppel
United Kingdom
Mr. James Vause
Mr. Richard Earley
European
Commission
Ms. Laure Ledoux
GOVERNMENT OBSERVERS
Additional Secretary
Biodiversity Programme
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Deputy Director
Global Biodiversity Strategy Office, Nature Conservation
Bureau, Ministry of the Environment
Senior Adviser
Department for Biodiversity, Outdoor Recreation and
Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Environment
Deputy Director
International Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Evidence
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Economist, Biodiversity
Natural Environment Economics
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
International Biodiversity Policy Advisor
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Biodiversity Unit
Directorate General for the Environment
Mandate of the High-Level
Panel
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Develop an assessment of the benefits of meeting the Aichi targets, examining
both direct biodiversity benefits and wider benefits to society that result from
the investments and policy developments required.
Assess the range of the costs of implementing the activities needed to achieve
the targets, taking into account the further work proposed in the High Level
Panel report to COP-11.
Identify opportunities to secure the benefits most cost effectively through
actions in both the biodiversity sector and across economies as a whole that
can mobilize / make better use of resources, to deliver greatest progress
towards meeting the Aichi targets.
Key Messages of the HighLevel Panel (Phase 2)
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1. Meeting the Aichi Targets will deliver substantial benefits to peoples and the
economies across the world
There is strong evidence of the benefits of biodiversity action for society across a
wide range of Aichi targets, for all types of ecosystems and for all regions of the
world.
2.
Biodiversity contributes to sustainable development
Investments in biodiversity and in the implementation of the Aichi Targets will
deliver significant co-benefits for sustainable development.
Achieving the Aichi targets will help to create jobs and revenue flows and support
new economic and business opportunities.
Key Messages of the HighLevel Panel (Phase 2)
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3. Biodiversity contributes to climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience
The potential for enhancing synergies between the Aichi Targets and policies to
address climate change is still not fully utilised and there is significant scope for
improvements in this regard.
4.
Investments in biodiversity can strengthen the provision of ecosystem services on
which vulnerable communities depend
Biodiversity action needs to take account of distributional impacts, to ensure that
benefits for poor and vulnerable communities are secured.
Key Messages of the HighLevel Panel (Phase 2)
5.
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Biodiversity provides insurance value
Investments in biodiversity can provide insurance against uncertain and
accelerating future environmental change, and maintain and enhance future
development options.
The World Economic Forum Global Risks report found that five of the eight worst global
risks are ecosystem-based. Taking insufficient action to address biodiversity loss will risk
losing current and future benefits that could become vital in the future.
6.
Enhancing synergies, addressing trade-offs and promoting alignments across
sectoral policies are prerequisites for effective implementation of the Aichi Targets
and of major importance for resource mobilization
Mainstreaming of biodiversity into wider policy agendas, plans and budgets, offers
significant opportunities for more efficient policy-making processes and co-funding.
Efforts to capture the broad range of biodiversity values in accounting and reporting
systems can advance the implementation of the Aichi Targets.
Key Messages of the HighLevel Panel (Phase 2)
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7. All countries need to invest in institutions and policy frameworks, direct
conservation and sustainable use actions, incentives and economic instruments
Developing and operationalising cohesive, well-designed institutions, and effective
policy frameworks that are a prerequisite for effective and efficient biodiversity
financing systems.
8. Design and implementation of appropriate policy and financial instruments is
essential to halt the loss of biodiversity
Much can be gained by phasing-out perverse incentives and unsustainable
practices, good land-use and marine planning and the development of green fiscal
policies.
Key Messages of the HighLevel Panel (Phase 2)
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9. The monetary and non-monetary benefits of biodiversity conservation and sustainable
use far outweigh the costs
The top-down estimates of resource needs in the High-Level Panel’s first report are broadly
consistent with available assessments at the national, regional and global levels. This
translates to investment requirements ranging from 0.08 to 0.25% of global GDP.
10. There is a need to increase investments substantially to bridge financing gaps
Closing the financial gap can only be achieved through realigning existing
expenditures with biodiversity objectives, particularly those which currently lead to
biodiversity loss, and improved sectoral integration
Recommended actions
1.
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Assess financing baselines, needs and gaps, and the full range of potential financing
sources (using the BIOFIN initiative approach), and identify opportunities for improving
cost-effectiveness in national biodiversity expenditure
2. Develop strategies and policies to bridge the biodiversity finance gap with a broadened
base of sustained and predictable sources of finance including more ambitious and
scaled-up policy tools such as:
• Payments for Ecosystem Services
• Offsets
• tradable permits
• other instruments such as spatial planning, quotas and restrictions
• policies for the elimination of environmentally harmful subsidies.
3. Biodiversity investments in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems need to be
understood, presented and recognised as solutions to wider problems and challenges.
Recommended actions
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4. When developing sustainable development goals and plans, countries should identify
actions through which mainstreaming biodiversity can directly contribute to
achieving such objectives and goals
5. As part of broader mainstreaming efforts, countries should further enhance the links
between climate change policies, projects and programmes and biodiversity
conservation and sustainable use.
6. Governments should convene broad dialogue among governmental, private and civil
society actors on the arguments for the integration of conservation and sustainable use
principles into various sectors
7. The in-kind contributions of indigenous peoples and local communities’ collective
actions, efforts and knowledge should be respected and taken into account when
designing, resourcing and implementing interventions.
Recommended actions
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8. Human and institutional capacity development programmes should include an increased
focus on the sharing of practical knowledge and experience in developing effective
policies and instruments for mainstreaming
9. Countries should integrate into training, education and capacity building programmes,
awareness of the economic rationale for action for biodiversity and ecosystem
services, and their role in achieving sustainable development.
10. Countries should include robust and verifiable baselines and indicators on the status
and trends of biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services that will help to track and
evaluate the benefits of investments and promote their uptake more broadly.
11. Investments should be made in improved knowledge generation regarding the
insurance value of biodiversity and better learning processes for adaptive governance of
ecosystems to avoid dangerous tipping points and regime shifts
The Costa Rica example
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First forest incentives
Elimination of pervese
incentives
Environmental
Governance
“improved”