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Biodiversity Finance Reporting Methodologies Experiences from Switzerland

Division. Biodiversity Finance Reporting Methodologies Experiences from Switzerland. Thursday, 19.06.2014. Agenda. Domestic Investments in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Public Investments Investments of NGOs and Foundations Private Sector Investments

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Biodiversity Finance Reporting Methodologies Experiences from Switzerland

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  1. Division Biodiversity Finance Reporting Methodologies Experiences from Switzerland Thursday, 19.06.2014

  2. Agenda • Domestic Investments in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services • Public Investments • Investments of NGOs and Foundations • Private Sector Investments • International Investments in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services • Public Investments • Investments of NGOs and Foundations • Private Sector Investments • Lessons Learnt

  3. Domestic Investments – Public Sector • Challenges • No methodology • Strongly decentralized government • No seperate budget line • New methodology needed • Transparency • Practicality • No double accounting • Incentive for mainstreaming Development of a biodiversity-factor

  4. Domestic Investments – Biodiversity Coefficient

  5. Domestic Investments – NGOs and Foundations • Increase visibility of contributions from non-govt. stakeholders • Comparable, transparent and practical methodology • Currently revising methodology

  6. Domestic Investments – Private Sector • Methodology • Questionnaire and Federal Statistics Survey • Corporate Social Responsability Reports • Interviews with different corporate representatives • Challenges • Lack of data and coherence • Confidentiality of data • No seperate budget line for biodiversity • No seperation of domestic and international flows • Results • Data not accurate and reliable enough to report it

  7. International Investments – Public Sector Bilateral Contributions Basic Data: OECD CRS Challenges Core contributions Multilateral vs. Multi-bilateral Eligible funds and organisations No markers MDB methodology Multilateral Contributions • Methodology: OECD DAC Rio-Markers • Challenges • Eligibility criteria • Application of markers • Lack of basis for quantification of markers • List of eligible activities

  8. International Investments – NGOs and Foundations • Methodology • Annual reports and public annual financial statements • Inverviews with representatives • Challenges • Seggregation of national and international flows • Biodiversity relevant investments • Conclusion • Dialogue with stakeholders to develop transparent, practical and comparable methodology

  9. International Investments – Private Sector • Methodology • Survey and Questionnaire with Domestic Investments • Challenges • Data coherence and availability • No seperation of domestic and international flows • Results • Data not accurate and reliable enough to report it • Enhanced Dialogue

  10. Lessons learnt • Need for Rio-Marker revisions • Switzerland is active within the Task Team of OECD DAC • Challenge to report investments of the private sector and NGOs/foundations finance due to lack of data and definitions • Switzerland is engaged in enhanced dialogue with Stakeholders • Clarification of indicators and increased transparency needed to ensure comparability and reliability of data • No monitoring and evaluation of impact

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