A joint ministerial message from the co-founders of the 10 Point Plan (Ecuador, Gabon, Maldives, and United Kingdom):

Bridging the biodiversity finance gap has become the most challenging and important issue we face during the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15.2) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The challenge has never been greater to mobilize collective action from governments, international financial institutions, the private sector, philanthropy, and civil society, to unlock new and additional financing for implementing the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

The Ten Point Plan is not a text for the negotiation process but supports implementation of the GBF, by elevating the immediate need to finance biodiversity to turn the tide on nature destruction this decade. Countries from six continents have come together to support the plan and we look forward to having other countries join us.

The countries signed up to the 10 Point Plan for Financing Biodiversity include:

These endorsers, numbering over 40 countries across six continents, represent:

• One third (33.4%) of global GDP

• One quarter (24%) of global land mass

• One quarter (24%) of global forest cover

To confirm your country’s endorsement of the 10 Point Plan for Financing Biodiversity, please send written confirmation of endorsement to naturefinance@defra.gov.uk