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Toolkit to identify and reform incentives harmful to biodiversity

Author/Contact:

Patrick ten Brink,

Director IEEP-Brussels and Head of Green Economy Programme

ptenbrink@ieep.eu

 

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Resource description:

Toolkit to identify and reform incentives harmful to biodiversity, by S. Withana, P. ten Brink, A. Illes, E. Watkins, D. Russi or The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP). This toolkit aims to be an operational guide to identify which incentives harmful to the biodiversity merit reform and to develop a roadmap of action to reform these subsidies.

Requirements:

  • Undertanding of incentive based mechanisms
  • Understanding of impacts on biodiversity from policies and drivers
  • Understanding of costs and benefits of impacts using monetary and non-monetary metrics

Advantages:

  • Practical stepwise guide to identify incentives that may merit reform and helps with CBD targets.
  • Includes a clear traffic light approach to help decision process
  • Includes examples of cases of subsidies, impacts, and their reform.

Constraints:

  • Works as a quick scan and will need complementary tools to get depth of analysis

Uses of this resource:

In principle this tool can be used by government authorities to explore what incentives have negative effects on biodiversity and hence help comply with Aichi targets on perverse incentives affecting biodiversity. It can also be used by NGOs to encourage government action.

Additional information:

This is the beta version. So comments on operationality welcome.

Licence:

  • Free, no licence

Development stage:

  • Early access - beta phase

Quality assurance:

  • Own QA and testing
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