The adoption of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 under the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, committed the international community to a set of ambitious goals on ‘living in harmony with nature’ and ‘leaving no one behind’. This requires immediate and ambitious action to protect life both below water and on land, by reducing pressures on biodiversity and ecosystems.
Development co-operation can support developing countries to transition towards sustainable development. Development finance operates both through technical assistance to strengthen enabling policies and institutional capacity, and through more direct financial support to activities in support of biodiversity conservation and sustainable use.
The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) monitors development finance targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions on climate change, biodiversity and desertification. This brochure presents statistics on biodiversity-related official development assistance (ODA) by members of the OECD DAC over the period 2006-2015.
