R. Lacy- OECD Environment Director- CBD COP 14 -Leaders Dialogue- Biodiversity Related Economic Instruments

1. PHOTO: UNAM, Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán
BIODIVERSITY FINANCE
leaders dialogue
Dr. RODOLFO LACY
Environment Director

2. *OECD PINE Data Base (Policy Instruments
for Environment) 2012-2016 average
PHOTO: NOAA/Vancouver Aquarium
1980 2018
TAXES
Fees & Charges
Tradable Permits
Subsidies
196
CBD
parties
7.4 BUSD
Biodiversity-relevant taxes
generated across
OECD countries
Numberofcountries

3. SOURCE: OECD CRS-ODA Data Base. 2016-2016 average
Bilateral biodiversity-
relevant Official
Development
Assistance, that
represents
of all ODA
contributions
6%
7.9 BUSD

4. potentially
environmentally
harmful support to
agriculture in 2015
100 BUSD
SOURCE: OECD Data Bases
373 BUSD
Fossil fuels
subsidies in 2015

5. PHOTO: https://www.unenvironment.org/es/node/19880
 Develop an effective and
transformational post-2020 biodiversity
framework
 Tracking Economic Instruments and
Finance for Biodiversity
 Develop guidance to identify and assess
harmful subsidies to biodiversity
 Paris Collaborative for Green Budgeting
 Making the ocean economy benefit all
Agenda

6. SEA PHOTO: Ray Collins
Rachel Carson PHOTO: Maine, 1955.
Courtesy of Martha Freeman for PBS
…human race was challenged
“to prove its mastery,
not of nature,
but of ourselves”
Rachel Carson
THANKS

7.  OECD (forthcoming 2018), “Evaluating the effectiveness of policy instruments for biodiversity”
 OECD (2018), Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development
 OECD (2018), Biodiversity-related Development Finance 2016
 OECD (2017), The Political Economy of Biodiversity Policy Reform
 OECD (2017), Marine Protected Areas: economics, management and effective policy mixes
 OECD (2016), Biodiversity Offsets: Effective Design and Implementation
 OECD (2013), Scaling Up Finance Mechanisms for Biodiversity
OECD work in 2019-2020:
 The post-2020 biodiversity framework: Targets, indicators and measurability implications at
global and national level
 Tracking and monitoring economic instruments and finance for biodiversity
 National guidance to identify and assess harmful subsidies to biodiversity
Visit: oe.cd/biodiversity