Daily Star Kenya

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.

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Panel Discussion

October 3, 2023

Campaign for Nature’s Finance Lead Mark Opel, spoke alongside Mariana Sarmiento, CEO of Terrasos, at the 2023 Building Bridges Summit on the future of nature markets. The debate focused on what role should nature credit markets have in financing biodiversity and on what terms, Mark argues that we must not overstate the role Biodiversity Credits can and should play and should instead be foused on delivering public finance.

Watch the full discussion here.

China Dialogue

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.”

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Media Statement

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.

Joint NGO Media Statement

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.

Vancouver Sun Op-Ed

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.

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Climate Home News

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.

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Media Statement

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.

Media Statement

30 June, 2023

The approval by the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) governing board to establish a new fund to finance the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) is a welcome step forward in the urgent need to mobilize more funding for nature in developing countries where biodiversity is concentrated.

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Nature

20 June, 2023

Brian O’Donnell, the director of Campaign for Nature, a conservation advocacy group based in Durango, Colorado, says that the success of the framework depends on donor countries making good on their pledges to increase biodiversity funding. In addition to agreeing to contribute $30 billion annually by 2030, wealthy countries said that they would help to find $200 billion per year from private and public sources by 2030. But the countries have not yet started to deliver on these promises.

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Project Syndicate - Op-Ed

5th June, 2023

Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - My work has taken me far and wide, across oceans and vast expanses of land, and I have been lucky enough to see firsthand some of the richest biodiversity hotspots on Earth. But at the end of the day, I always return home – to Liberia, to Africa, which offers the most extraordinary natural landscape and wildlife. The African continent is undoubtedly the planet’s biodiversity powerhouse.

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Media Statement

May 31, 2023

Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved legislation on Tuesday that will have major negative implications for the territorial rights of Indigenous peoples. The legislation allows the government to seize land from Indigenous communities if it deems their cultural traits have changed. It also places an unreasonable time limit and cut off date on claims that will undermine large areas of Indigenous territorial claims.

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Daily Kos - Op-Ed

22 May, 2023

If the US wants 30 by 30 to succeed globally we urgently need all leaders, President Biden included, to publicly affirm their commitment to numeric financial targets, including the financial commitment of $20B in international biodiversity finance from developed to developing countries by 2025. The climate section of the leader’s statement noted the numerical target of $100 billion for international climate finance, and biodiversity requires the same level of specificity for transparency and accountability.

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Media Statement

May 20, 2023

On the eve of World Biodiversity Day, we, the undersigned, are calling on the wealthiest nations to prioritise urgent action to protect and restore biodiversity and just transition their economies to be nature positive. We are encouraged that the G7 leader’s statement reaffirmed a commitment to the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and pledged to meet its goals and targets. 

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Context News - Op-Ed

18 May, 2023

We are facing two parallel crises: climate change and global biodiversity loss. Climate change has captured most of the headlines, but scientists say the nature crisis is equally or even more important. We can't solve one without solving the other. A landmark assessment of global biodiversity in 2019 warned that nature is declining at rates unprecedented in human history.

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