This report is the first response to the request, by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, to prepare periodic global monitoring reports on the implementation of the strategy for resource mobilization. It looks at the funding trends revealed by the Rio markers on biodiversity of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee, national reports of Parties, trends in funding to Global Environment Facility, and funding flows through a selected number of the large international non-governmental organizations. Further information on certain innovative financial mechanisms is analyzed on the basis of the results of the Bonn Workshop on Innovative Financial Mechanisms held in January 2010.
