Biodiversity Finance Trends 2026
Updated Dashboard available on Monday 19th October
The 2026 Biodiversity Finance Trends Dashboard is published to ahead of the UN CBD COP17 in Yerevan, Armenia, 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 is a collaborative initiative between the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC).
Analysing Target 19a
The 2026 Dashboard aggregates 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.
See the Technical Annex for all the details, including a explanation of
biodiversity-related vs biodiversity-specific finance.
Donors’ biodiversity-specific bilateral development finance flows have increased from US$5.5 billion in 2019 to US$8.5 billion in 2024. This was an increase of US$0.6 billion on 2023.
Donors’ biodiversity-related bilateral development finance flows have increased from US$8.4 billion in 2019 to US$15.0 billion in 2024. This was an increase of US$1.4 billion on 2023.
Multilateral biodiversity-specific development financial flows have also increased from US$1.9 billion in 2019 to US$8.2 billion in 2023. This was an increase of US$1 billion on 2023.
Multilateral biodiversity-related development financial flows have increased from US$3.9 billion in 2019 to US$15.8 billion in 2024. This was an increase of US$1.9 billion on 2023.
International biodiversity-specific philanthropy continued to fall from its 2021 peak of US$0.9 billion to US$0.3 billion in 2024.
International biodiversity-related philanthropy returned to the same level in 2024 as 2019, at US$0.5 billion. This is a decrease from the 2021 peak of US$0.9 billion.
Biodiversity-specific private sector finance for biodiversity mobilised by public development finance reached a record of US$1.9 billion in 2024, an increase o US$1.7 billion on 2023.
Biodiversity-related private sector finance for biodiversity mobilised by public development finance has increased from US$0.2 billion in 2019 to US$2.9 billion in 2024. This is an increase of US$1.3 billion on 2023.