2009-02-Amsterdam
Expert Workshop on a Green Development Mechanism
09-10 Feb 09
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Government of the Netherlands hosted an international experts meeting on scaling up biodiversity finance through exploring options for creating markets for international conservation obligations.
General points of agreement among the meeting participants included the following:
-“There is a clear need for an international mechanism that will help to generate trans-boundary payments to compensate hosts of biodiversity for their opportunity costs of conservation.”
-”Some form of regulatory mechanism will be required in order to achieve the scale of financial flows necessary to effectively deliver biodiversity protection.”
-“A GDM will need to be compatible with existing policy instruments.”
-“There is a clear mandate for a role for the CBD in the development and future implementation of a GDM.”
-The final report of this meeting is: “intended as a contribution to the project of developing a proposal for a GDM [and] provides some structure to the discussion without foreclosing any options.”
Report from an Expert Workshop
Proposal for a Green Development Mechanism
Workshop website: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cleed/gdm.htm
