Photograph by: Enric Sala, National Geographic
July 11 2024
By Mary Robinson - Two years ago, developed countries pledged to provide the Global South with at least $20 billion annually by 2025 to help preserve 30% of the world’s land and oceans. But a new report reveals that most countries have failed to contribute their fair share, severely impeding our ability to achieve crucial climate goals.
Read the full op-ed here.
10 July 2024
By Lord Zac Goldsmith - We’re now less than one year away from that target deadline and new research from the ODI, commissioned by the Campaign for Nature, finds that unfortunately we are a long way off. According to the latest figures available from the OECD only two countries were paying their fair share of this funding that we agreed to, and the UK is not one of them. On the contrary we are some way from keeping our word and doing our part.
Read the full op-ed here.
19 June, 2024
By Mike Rann - Australia should be proud that we are contributing significantly more than the likes of the UK, Canada or Switzerland, but now we need a last push to meet our commitments. A crucial new report by the ODI, commissioned by the Campaign for Nature, shows the scale of the global challenge. It’s one that Australia is uniquely positioned to help solve.
Read full op-ed here.
April 22, 2024
The CfN Global Steering Committee constitutes the highest-profile political group working to safeguard nature. This esteemed group of former heads of state, ministers, diplomats, and scientists has tirelessly championed the global goal to protect and conserve at least 30% of the world’s lands and waters by 2030. Against the backdrop of increasingly concerning headlines regarding climate change and nature loss, they are urging G7 leaders to prioritize the delivery of commitments made to invest in nature. The full letter can be read here.
19 March, 2024
In January this year, Campaign for Nature, a U.S.-based advocacy group, came out with a report critiquing this new scheme. “We wrote this paper because we didn’t see enough concerns being raised in civil society,” says Mark Opel, finance lead at Campaign for Nature.
Read the full article here.
15 December, 2023
One year ago today the world agreed to a landmark plan – the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) – to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030. The plan was headlined by the science-based target to protect or conserve at least 30 percent of the planet’s land and ocean by 2030 (30x30), marking the most ambitious global nature conservation strategy ever established. The plan also stressed the critical role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as stewards of nature and set finance targets to close the biodiversity finance gap, including a near term target to increase international biodiversity finance to at least $20 billion per year by 2025.
Read full statement here.
29 November, 2023
By Former President Mary Robinson and Rita El Zaghloul, HAC for N&P Director - We currently face two urgent crises – nature loss and climate change – and both pose catastrophic risks to humanity. The two issues are inextricably linked. We can’t address the climate crisis without nature, and we can’t address the nature crisis without drastically cutting emissions.
Read the full article here.
23 November 2023
By Hailemariam Desalegn and Thomas Crowther - We can’t address the climate crisis without nature, and you can’t address the nature crisis without cutting emissions. Despite there now being a growing recognition of the critical importance of nature, it often remains in the backwaters of global climate discussions.
Read the full article here.
13 October 2023
Campaign for Nature has urged stakeholders to include both climate and nature solutions for the most affected individuals in local communities. In an interview with the Star, the director Brian O’Donnell said it was time for indigenous people to have their rights upheld. "Climate and nature solutions should be inclusive and equitable. Not forgetting the financial bit, which should get to the people really affected by climate change," O’Donnell said.
Read more here.
September 18, 2023
O’Donnell believes that voluntary private financing of the Global Biodiversity Framework is a myth. “It’s convenient for governments to try to pass the responsibility off to the private sector, but the only way the private sector will truly fund biodiversity is if it’s required to. Governments either have to put the money up themselves, or create a legal and financial framework that requires or incentivises the private sector to do it.”
Read the full article here.
September 6, 2023
At the African Climate Summit, His Excellency Iván Duque, former President of Colombia, His Excellency Hailemariam Desalegn, former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, and His Excellency Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, former Prime Minister of Uganda called on leaders and ministers to ensure that the nature finance commitment made at COP15 to deliver at least $20 billion per annum from developed countries to developing countries by 2025 is given the prominence it requires.
Read the full statement here.
August 31, 2023
Ahead of the G20 Heads of State Summit, we, the undersigned, call on leaders to give prominence to finance for nature in the Leaders Declaration.
G20 leaders must recognize spending on nature as investments in the cornerstone of our global economy, a source of jobs and economic growth, and non-monetary essentials like clean air and water and food security, rather than a ‘nice to have’.
Read the full statement here.
24 August, 2023
Chief Frank Brown and Russ Feingold
As B.C. faces drought, heatwaves, and the worst wildfire season in history, it is increasingly evident that serious consequences of climate change are with us now. To confront these impacts, scientists have said that we need transformational change, and that must begin with bold action from governments.
Read the full article here.
28 August, 2023
A new global fund supporting the protection of nature in developing countries has been launched, but questions remain over how it will be financed.The Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) aims to help countries reach the nature protection targets set by the breakthrough Kunming-Montreal biodiversity deal signed last year.
The fund, which will contribute to the goal of protecting 30% of the world’s land and water ecosystems by 2030, has been set up by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), a multilateral financial partnership.
Read the full article here.
August 16, 2023
The CfN Global Steering Committee constitutes the highest-profile political group working to safeguard nature. This esteemed group of former heads of state, ministers, diplomats, and scientists has tirelessly championed the 30x30 goal since its inception and is now issuing a clarion call to world leaders to urgently and ambitiously confront the continuing loss of nature and to prioritize commitments made to increase biodiversity financing immediately.
The letter can be read here.
