1. Recognizing Nature’s Value: Incentivize sustainable practices through Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and biodiversity certifications.
2. Empowering Local Communities: Provide fair funding and capacity-building for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
3. Landscape-Based Solutions: Promote integrated, cross-sectoral approaches for large-scale biodiversity impact.
4. Domestic Finance & Subsidy Reform: Strengthen national funding mechanisms and redirect harmful subsidies.
5. Private Investment Mobilization: Encourage biodiversity-positive investments through blended finance and de-risking strategies.
6. Raising Ambition: Scale global funding commitments and simplify access to financial resources for conservation projects.

This roadmap highlights innovative and collaborative solutions to finance biodiversity, ensuring nature and communities thrive together.

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Key Messages

• Holistic Framework: Territorial approaches foster coherent governance by integrating social, environmental, and economic dimensions.
• Inclusive Development: These approaches address inequalities, prioritizing women, youth, indigenous peoples, and marginalized communities.
• Resilience and Sustainability: They support sustainable food systems, climate adaptation, and biodiversity protection.
• Lessons Learned: The updated 2023 White Paper builds on key milestones since 2018, offering actionable recommendations for policymakers, donors, and practitioners.
• Global Importance: Territorial approaches are essential for bridging rural-urban divides and aligning local actions with global SDG ambitions.

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These guidelines draw from local government experiences and examples, in a range of geographical and politico-administrative contexts. They are designed to assist local government practitioners and policy- makers in managing biodiversity and are flexible to the level of resources and experience available. They should be of as much use to technically-advanced local governments wishing to hone their existing plans, as they should be to relative newcomers wishing to initiate strategic biodiversity planning. Actionable suggestions are posited to guide and inspire users, but will not be equally relevant or feasible in every local government.

Users should therefore exercise some discretion in identifying the most appropriate suggestions for meeting their respective needs. In all cases, users are encouraged to be ambitious whilst prioritizing what is realistic and achievable. Capacity, in particular, will determine what is possible but even a single individual with scarce resources can make a catalytic start. Section 1 provides a background to local biodiversity management issues and introduces the concept of a Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (LBSAP) and the rationale for developing one. Section 2 provides practical suggestions on how to begin compiling an LBSAP, from assempling a team to conducting a biodiversity assessment, and explores the concept of biodiversity mainstreaming. Section 3 identifies the standard information that an LBSAP should contain and suggests how to construct a vision, guiding principles, goals, targets and actions. It examines a number of extracts taken from existing LBSAPs of leading local governments. To further inspire the design of actions proposed in an LBSAP, section 4 outlines the various tools and approaches that can be applied at the local level to effectively manage and mainstream biodiversity. Finally, section 5 provides a short conclusion.

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7th GLF Investment Case Symposium

How can we raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity and climate?  From 21 October to 1 November 2024, global leaders gathered in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), tackling critical issues like ecosystem protection, climate action, and food security. The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, the largest sustainable finance event in the Global South, explored how to fund these efforts, including the role of emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finding innovative solutions.

Isabela Echeverry Penon

Isabela holds a Master’s in International Affairs from SIPA-Columbia, specializing in Economic and Political Development. She has dedicated her career to driving economic growth through entrepreneurship and innovation in Colombia, including as Entrepreneurship and Innovation Director at the Cali Chamber of Commerce, where she launched a thriving startup ecosystem and supported over 3,000 entrepreneurs. Since joining IDB Lab in 2022, she manages a $20M portfolio focused on climate, impact-driven startups, innovation finance, and outcome-based financing across Latin America.

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7th GLF Investment Case Symposium

How can we raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity and climate?  From 21 October to 1 November 2024, global leaders gathered in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), tackling critical issues like ecosystem protection, climate action, and food security. The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, the largest sustainable finance event in the Global South, explored how to fund these efforts, including the role of emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finding innovative solutions.

About Valentin Dyckerhoff

In this compelling keynote speech, Senior Policy Officer at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Valentin Dyckerhoff delves into the critical intersection of alternative development and sustainable landscape management.

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7th GLF Investment Case Symposium

How can we raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity and climate?  From 21 October to 1 November 2024, global leaders gathered in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), tackling critical issues like ecosystem protection, climate action, and food security. The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, the largest sustainable finance event in the Global South, explored how to fund these efforts, including the role of emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finding innovative solutions.

One landscape at a time

From the Philippines to Brazil, Peru to Bolivia, India to El Salvador the GLF Restoration Stewards and GLFx Chapters are igniting movements of hope and action. These inspiring stories show that true transformation begins within communities, where collective efforts are reshaping landscapes and restoring ecosystems. Join us in exploring how communities are leading the way in restoring our planet, one landscape at a time.

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7th GLF Investment Case Symposium

How can we raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity and climate?  From 21 October to 1 November 2024, global leaders gathered in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), tackling critical issues like ecosystem protection, climate action, and food security. The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, the largest sustainable finance event in the Global South, explored how to fund these efforts, including the role of emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finding innovative solutions.

About this session

This plenary dives into the profound ways AI is reshaping nature finance and sustainable finance across Latin America, examining both its exciting potential and its challenges. Experts will share insights into AI-powered solutions and their role in shaping the future of sustainable finance in the region. We explore how AI and fintech are expanding financial access, driving green financing and transforming the measurement of carbon footprints, while also addressing risks like market volatility and governance gaps. This session provides a balanced view of the positive and negative consequences for financial professionals, startups and policymakers alike.

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7th GLF Investment Case Symposium

How can we raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity and climate?  From 21 October to 1 November 2024, global leaders gathered in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), tackling critical issues like ecosystem protection, climate action, and food security. The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, the largest sustainable finance event in the Global South, explored how to fund these efforts, including the role of emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finding innovative solutions.

About this session

In this Dragons’ Den session, two biodiversity projects pitch to a panel of investors, showing real opportunities to fund conservation and sustainable practices. Investors provide feedback, highlighting solutions to bridge the biodiversity finance gap.

Global Biodiversity Finance Roadmap

In the final plenary, experts discuss priorities and solutions for a roadmap to achieve Global Biodiversity Framework goals. Stakeholders, from financial institutions to policymakers, are urged to drive implementation, with a focus on including local communities and Indigenous Peoples in biodiversity financing.

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7th GLF Investment Case Symposium

How can we raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity and climate?  From 21 October to 1 November 2024, global leaders gathered in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), tackling critical issues like ecosystem protection, climate action, and food security. The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, the largest sustainable finance event in the Global South, explored how to fund these efforts, including the role of emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finding innovative solutions.

About this session

Since 2019, the Forestry and Climate Change Fund (FCCF) has provided equity and finance to companies in Central America and Mexico dedicated to the sustainable management of secondary and degraded forests and adding value to wood. FCCF introduces a series of silvicultural and forest management practices that result in forest growth and increased wood quality, but these practices incur costs that must be financed according to their long-term results. This session explores financing options for these practices and ways to increase the competitiveness and quality of wood from secondary and degraded forests.

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7th GLF Investment Case Symposium

How can we raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity and climate?  From 21 October to 1 November 2024, global leaders gathered in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), tackling critical issues like ecosystem protection, climate action, and food security. The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, the largest sustainable finance event in the Global South, explored how to fund these efforts, including the role of emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finding innovative solutions.

About this session

The CGIAR science program on multifunctional landscapes integrates the three Rio Conventions with climate action, biodiversity and ecosystem gains and land degradation neutrality from source to sea.

This session shows how thriving multifunctional landscapes are critical to deliver on the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Three speakers elaborate on how to bridge current financing gaps to support multifunctional landscape research to effectively implement the GBF.

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