Welcome to the Conservation Finance Guide. The overall goal is to provide practical tools to support the rapid expansion of sustainable finance mechanisms that generate long-term funding for biodiversity conservation.
Welcome to the Conservation Finance Guide. The overall goal is to provide practical tools to support the rapid expansion of sustainable finance mechanisms that generate long-term funding for biodiversity conservation.
The overall goal of the guide is to provide practical tools to support the rapid expansion of sustainable finance mechanisms that generate long-term funding for biodiversity conservation.
Using the CFA white paper “Conservation Finance: A Framework” (2020) as a foundation (download here), the Conservation Finance Guide consists primarily of 7 base taxonomic classes. Each class contains on average between 4 and 5 independent finance solution categories for a total of 34.
The specific objectives of the Guide are:
To increase awareness and understanding of the range of conservation finance mechanisms available
To provide practical, user-friendly tools to methodically assess which conservation finance mechanisms are most viable in specific settings, and to efficiently and successfully implement these mechanisms
To expand significantly the pool of practitioners able to develop and implement sustainable conservation finance mechanisms
The Conservation Finance Guide serves as a platform that brings together the taxonomy presented in the CFA white paper “Conservation Finance: A Framework” and the over 150 individual finance mechanisms pioneered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project, the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) into one cohesive and interactive platform. The previously unorganized finance mechanisms have now been redistributed under the appropriate taxonomic categories to accelerate the ease of use for practitioners, government officials, and members of civil society.