Factsheet: Where is the Money for Biodiversity

February 19, 2025

At COP16 in Colombia, Parties failed to figure out ways of funding initiatives to protect biodiversity. They were supposed to discuss a strategy for resource mobilization to help secure $200 billion annually by 2030 from all sources, as guided in Target 19 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). The issue of resource mobilization will once again be addressed in 2025 at the resumed COP16 meeting from February 25–27. 

This factsheet shows that though COP16 has tried to improve the on-ground situation by bringing resource mobilization on the forefront, the solutions being considered are generally on a small scale, with limited data on their effectiveness. Funds available for biodiversity are not sufficient in any way. Instead of depending on such solutions, it would be prudent to make more public funding available.