Biodiversity Finance Trends 2025
The 2025 Biodiversity Finance Trends Dashboard is published to ahead of the UNFCCC COP30 in Belém, Brazil, providing an update on the current trends in biodiversity finance from all sources to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and to highlight the importance of building synergies across climate and nature finance and action.
The Dashboard was launched at the Natural History Museum in London on 9th October, 2025.
During COP30 in Brazil, the Dashboard was presented at a side event hosted at the UK Pavilion by the UK’s Department of Environment, Farming, and Rural Affairs (Defra) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Read the event summary here, and you can watch a recording of the discussion here.
Analysing Target 19a
The 2025 Dashboard aggregates for the first time the trends in international biodiversity finance from developed to developing countries. This data can be disaggregated into the following finance flows: Bilateral, Multilateral, Private Philanthropies, and Private Finance Mobilised by Public Finance.
For the disaggregated data, see the graphs below.
Biodiversity Finance Trends
2025 Report:
The Nature Conservancy has produced a deep-dive report on the trends identified in the 2025 Dashboard, highlighting areas where action is happening and can be scaled, and recommendations for all actors on scaling nature finance for the goals of the KMGBF. Read the report here.
Analysing Target 19a
Donors’ biodiversity-related bilateral development finance flows have increased from US$9.5 billion in 2015 to US$13.6 billion in 2023. Since 2022, this is an increase of US$1.5 billion.
Donors’ biodiversity-specific bilateral development finance flows have increased from US$6.6 billion in 2015 to US$7.9 billion in 2023. Since 2022, this is an increase of US$0.8 billion.
Multilateral biodiversity-related development financial flows have increased from US$1.4 billion in 2015 to US$13.9 billion in 2023. This is an increase of US$2.6 billion since 2022.
Multilateral biodiversity-specific development financial flows have also increased from US$0.6 billion in 2015 to US$7.2 billion in 2023. This is an increase of US$1.5 billion since 2022.
International biodiversity-related philanthropy has increased overall from US$0.04 billion in 2015 to US$0.6 billion in 2023. A decrease from a peak of US$0.7 billion in 2022.
International biodiversity-specific philanthropy reached US$0.5 billion in 2023.
Private sector finance for biodiversity mobilised by public development finance has increased from US$0.1 billion in 2016 to US$1.7 billion in 2023. There has been a small decrease of US$0.1 billion since 2022.
Private sector finance for biodiversity mobilised by public development finance, in the biodiversity-specific scenario, reached US$1.2 billion in 2023.
See the Technical Annex for all the details