Norway is the only developed country to contribute more than double its fair share to the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, according to a report by the Overseas Development Institute think tank.
The GBF consists of 23 targets, aiming to protect 30 percent of land, oceans and inland waters and restore 30 percent of degraded ecosystems by 2030.
of reportThe report, commissioned by the non-profit Campaign for Nature, assesses how much biodiversity funding each of 28 developed countries should provide to developing countries in order to maintain funding under the Framework.
The 28 developed countries were chosen because they have voluntarily signed the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, which the United States has not endorsed.
To calculate each country’s fair share, the report’s authors took into account each country’s historical responsibility for biodiversity depletion (measured by its ecological footprint over the past 60 years), its ability to pay (measured by its gross national income), and the size of its population.
Besides Norway, only Sweden provides more than its fair share, according to the report. Germany is closer to it at 99 percent, and France at 92 percent.
Southern and Eastern European countries do not score much better, with Poland at the bottom of the list with a fair contribution of just 5%, equivalent to $4 million in 2021. The smallest contribution in absolute terms is made by Lithuania, equivalent to $400,000 in 2021.
This article was first A sustainable perspectiveThe Bunker’s sister magazine
