Biodiversity

Our Work

The European Community is an important funder of conservation within the EU. IEEP has decades of experience in contributing to debates on EU and global financing of biodiversity. We aim to help policy-makers understand the benefits associated with investing in nature conservation, and to make stakeholders aware of funding opportunities. Our work includes assessing how much money has been directed towards biodiversity protection and making recommendations to ensure that funding is adequate to meet biodiversity objectives.

IEEP has a broad range of experts in European funds, enabling us to develop detailed guidance on the opportunities for funding biodiversity conservation through these channels. This work includes the European Commission’s Financing Natura 2000 Guidance Handbook and other finance related guidance. We also analyse innovative financial instruments and approaches to enhance private sector financing of biodiversity, and funding biodiversity conservation in developing countries.

Our work has also supported the case for investing in nature conservation through researching the social and economic benefits and costs of investing in protected areas, including the Natura 2000 network.

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Latest in Financing Biodiversity

  • Improving environmental financing via result-based agri-environment measures

    A new article by IEEP explores the use of result-based agri-environment measures in the region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The study shows that result-based schemes can increase the environmental effectiveness and conditionality of the EU Common Agricultural Policy.

  • Guidance handbook for financing Natura 2000

    An updated ‘Financing Natura 2000 Guidance Handbook’ aims to inform national stakeholders about opportunities for financing the management of Natura 2000 sites through various EU funds during the 2014-2020 period.

  • Instruments for financing action on invasive alien species in Finland

    A range of examples exist around the world on innovative instruments that can finance, cover or recover the costs of policy action on invasive alien species. A review by IEEP and partners identifies a number of such examples and assesses their pros and cons.

  • Sectoral resource mobilisation to implement global biodiversity targets

    There is an urgent need to find sufficient resources to enable developing countries to implement the global targets for biodiversity by 2020. Financing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity from different sectoral funding flows can complement global biodiversity financing.

Highlights

  • Sectoral resource mobilisation to implement global biodiversity targets

    There is an urgent need to find sufficient resources to enable developing countries to implement the global targets for biodiversity by 2020. Financing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity from different sectoral funding flows can complement global biodiversity financing.

  • Guidance handbook for financing Natura 2000

    An updated ‘Financing Natura 2000 Guidance Handbook’ aims to inform national stakeholders about opportunities for financing the management of Natura 2000 sites through various EU funds during the 2014-2020 period.