A GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO SHAPE BIODIVERSITY CREDIT MARKETS
DELIVERING FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET
Innovative solutions that deliver scaled-up investment in nature are crucial to increase the protection and restoration of the planet's ecosystems.
The International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits has been set up as an independent and global initiative to help unlock significant financial flows to nature through the development of high integrity Biodiversity Credit Markets.
An open and inclusive process
The independent Panel is a global multidisciplinary group composed of over 25 diverse and experienced individuals from more than a dozen countries. They include people from finance and industry, Indigenous peoples and local communities, and NGOs. The Panel is values-driven and evidence-based and adopts an open and inclusive process involving other countries and key partners.
The Panel considers it essential that its work and any recommendations it makes are developed together with Indigenous Peoples and local community representatives and with full respect of their rights, in accordance with relevant national legislation, UNDRIP, and other international instruments, as applicable.
A systematic approach
Our five Working Groups are addressing key design challenges: Measurement, Supply, Demand, Stewardship and Governance.
We are also engaging Knowledge Partners. These Groups will help us bring together the latest science, data, technology, knowledge and experience from Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and market developments to help shape nature markets and increase and accelerate investment in nature in a way that delivers for people and the planet.
"The inclusive advisory panel will help the global community maximise the benefits to nature, people and planet represented by biodiversity credit markets."
DAME AMELIA FAWCETT
co-Chair
"We are embedded in nature. We need to deliver the right instruments that unlock investment in the protection and recovery of nature."
SYLVIE GOULARD
co-Chair