The Biodiversity Finance Pulse

Where The Money Comes From

The OECD estimates that USD 74.9 to 92.4 billion a year went to biodiversity from all sources in 2023 to 2025, around 0.07 to 0.08% of global GDP. The range reflects different methodological assumptions, not statistical confidence. Because of gaps in reporting, the OECD says actual finance is likely to be higher.

The Numbers In Context

The Gap, To Scale

Four Ways To Look At The Money

Open each one for a plain-English explanation for your age group, what the data show, how the OECD counted it and what is missing. Each has an Education Snapshot with a learning question and a classroom activity. The fourth set of figures is reported separately and is not added to the total.

The Global Promises

The targets in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework that deal most directly with money and business, summarised in plain English. Global Target

Six Policy Actions From The OECD

The report's six recommendations for governments and public finance institutions. OECD Finding

Timeline

The Toolbox

The fifteen instruments the OECD reviews for mobilising money for nature, from Table 1.1 of the report. Each one shows how it moves money, how mature it is, examples from the report, the OECD's watch points and good practice, and a question for your learners. Each opens with a plain-English explanation for your chosen age group and an Education Snapshot. The maturity label refers to use for biodiversity.

The OECD notes that maturity labels are indicative, and that high scale potential does not necessarily mean high integrity or real-world impact for biodiversity.

Country Examples

Twelve cases from the report, grouped by how they raise money. The OECD selected examples to show how instruments are financed; some are described as illustrations rather than proven best practice.

Read The Small Print

Nine findings from the reports that show what is still unproven, where money missed its mark, and what the global count leaves out. Use them alongside the cases.

Sources: OECD, Mobilising Public And Private Finance For Biodiversity (2026), sections 3.1 to 3.2; OECD, An Overview Of Global Biodiversity Finance (2026), sections 2 and 4. Country Example OECD Finding

Classroom Activities

Seven lesson designs built on the two reports. Each shows what you need, the steps, an adaptation for your chosen age group and the competences it builds. Add any of them to a Lesson Pack to print.

GreenComp Competences

GreenComp has 12 competences in four areas. Select a competence to read what it means in plain English and see every instrument and activity in this tool that builds it.

Competence tags on instruments and activities are 169to1 mapping, not an OECD or EU classification.

SDG Targets

Biodiversity finance mapped against all 169 SDG targets. Each target has a tier and a one-line finance lens drawn from the two reports. Select a target to see its lens and every instrument, activity and source of money linked to it. On linked items, a solid chip means a direct link and a dashed chip a supporting one.

Tiers, finance lens and links are by 169to1, built on the OECD reports. Plain-English target wording follows the 169to1 SDG Target Selector. 169to1 is independent and has no UN affiliation.

Get Involved

Places to find your country's plans, the global targets and the full reports, and a community for sharing what your class produces.

Your Lesson Pack

Instruments and activities you have added, printed as lesson sheets: page 001 for learners, page 002 for adult learners.

Your pack is empty. Use Add To Lesson Pack on any instrument or activity.

Every lesson has two A4 pages. Page 001 is for school learners. Page 002 is for adult learners, including teachers preparing the lesson and adult groups in workplaces and communities. Printing opens the sheets on their own page. Use the Print button at the top, or on a phone use Share and then Print to save a PDF.

Teacher's And Student's Notes