Monitoring and mapping biodiversity conservation funding with eConservation 1.0
An assessment of needs, challenges and opportunities in documenting conservation efforts globally
To halt biodiversity loss and achieve internationally agreed conservation goals, the importance of adequate and well-targeted financial resources is well recognised. Yet there is a lack of consistent, comparable, and complete data on biodiversity funding. Better information is needed for decision-makers to be able to assess the impacts and effectiveness of the funding, identify shortfalls, and coordinate efforts.
The web-based eConservation application developed by the JRC aims to help understand who is funding what and where. It makes available, in an interactive mapping interface, information on projects funded by large public donors worldwide. It focuses on two aspects: providing systematic information on the geographic location of the projects, through the georeferencing of project sites; and better separating funding for biodiversity from other expenditures. These aspects are key, as the effectiveness of biodiversity funding depends on its targeting.
This report provides the technical documentation of eConservation but also explores the challenges and opportunities associated with the development of such a tool and the underlying database, which currently includes a few big donors. Joining efforts with potentially interested partners would allow scaling up the current tool into a more comprehensive information platform. The report argues that there is a potential to bring some more standardisation to the biodiversity information landscape, to ultimately contribute to improved decision-making on biodiversity conservation.
MISPIRATCEGUY Manon;
GANISHEVA Krasimira;
OSTERMANN Ole Peter;
NEUVILLE Aude;
BATTISTELLA Luca;
MANDRICI Andrea;
BERTZKY Bastian;
GARCIA BENDITO Eduardo;
DUBOIS Gregoire;
2021-10-27
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC126162
978-92-76-42209-9 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 30858 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30858-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC126162,
10.2760/21067 (online),
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