Financing biodiversity conservation

Environmental Policy and Law

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 172-175

  Lake, Rob ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

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References (8)

1. Preparations for the Special Session of the General Assembly for the Purpose of an Overall Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of Agenda 21. Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Note by the Secretary-General. United Nations, February 1997.
2. Proposed Outcome of the Special Session. Advance Unedited Copy. United Nations Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development. Undated.
3. Ibid. Section 56.
4. James et al. estimate that unmet financial needs for protected area management - only one aspect of biodiversity conservation - total some $1.1 billion per year. The latest OECD figures suggest that aid for biodiversity - including the Global Environment Facility but excluding multilateral institutions - totalled around $250 million in 1995. (Government Investment in the Conservation of Biological Diversity: a Global Survey of Parks and Protected Areas Agencies. (Draft) James et al., World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1996; unpublished OECD figures, adapted by RSPB/BirdLife International).
5. See, for example, What Future for Aid? Tony Killick, in Finance for Sustainable Development: The Road Ahead. United Nations Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development. 1997.
6. Ref. Note 2, Section 67.
7. Discussion of this kind needs to take place - to a greater extent than is already the case - between donors and recipient countries, and amongst donors collectively in fora such as the OECD Development Assistance Committee's Working Party on Development and Environment. The recent initiation of collaboration between this group and the Biodiversity Convention Secretariat is a welcome development.
8. Sub-Saharan Africa received only 2.4% of all private investment in developing countries in 1996. (Financial Times, 14.5.97).