What We Do
To combat the growing biodiversity and extinction crisis, financial investment in nature must be placed on an equal footing with other global investment priorities.
Place public health, food and water security, poverty alleviation, biodiversity protection, and healthy ecosystems on an equal standing politically, financially, and socially.
Transform the deployment of global financial resources to fund biodiversity protection at scale.
Halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
Expand and strengthen protected area integrity.
End commercial wildlife exploitation and curb wildlife trade.
Develop and deliver alternative livelihoods and food sources for those who currently rely on the exploitation of wild animals and plants for their survival.
Strengthen international and regional wildlife law enforcement.
Incorporate animal welfare considerations into nature recovery programs.
Funding Nature Recovery
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates that the annual required cost for safeguarding nature is around $300 – 400 billion USD. Currently, annual funding allocated to nature recovery programs is roughly $50 billion USD, far short of what is needed.
Funding for the recovery of nature must be secured through:
Green Priorities in Budget Allocation
Encouraging governments, businesses, and society as a whole look beyond GDP as a narrow measure of success and adopt ‘biodiversity-proof’ budgets in order to maximize wealth, health, and well-being, now and for future generations.
Encouraging governments, businesses, and society as a whole look beyond GDP as a narrow measure of success and adopt ‘biodiversity-proof’ budgets in order to maximize wealth, health, and well-being, now and for future generations.
Green Revenue Streams
Advocating for the adoption of resource mobilization mechanisms, such as linking development funding and climate funding to wildlife and biodiversity protection, and national debt forgiveness/deferral for developing countries.
Advocating for the adoption of resource mobilization mechanisms, such as linking development funding and climate funding to wildlife and biodiversity protection, and national debt forgiveness/deferral for developing countries.
Funding Deployment Targets That Enhance Nature Recovery and Public Health
Advocating for investment in health care, infrastructure, economic development, and security for the world’s poorer nations so that the most vulnerable are better protected from future pandemics.
Advocating for investment in health care, infrastructure, economic development, and security for the world’s poorer nations so that the most vulnerable are better protected from future pandemics.
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Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Wild animal Welfare through the Global Nature Recovery Investment Initiative
The Global Nature Recovery Investment Initiative is a bold plan to secure the future of the natural world, protect biodiversity, and safeguard human health and well-being. Read our full report to learn more about GNRII.
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