Kunming Biodiversity Fund 

Fund Purpose

Stakeholders of the Kunming Biodiversity Fund facilitate the successful implementation of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework at regional, national, subnational and local levels—reliant on all-of-society participation and approaches. It complements existing biodiversity funds to add value and contributions to comprehensive action that reverse the trend of biodiversity loss and achieve outcomes set in the 2050 vision, including four long-term goals by 2050 and 23 GBF action targets by 2030.

In contributing to three objectives of the CBD and related protocols—as well as other international processes like the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—partners anticipate strengthening the Theory of Change and associated outcomes during the Inception Phase to ensure the most strategic approach for driving positive impact and addressing barriers systemically. This approach will inform a relevant monitoring and evaluation framework for the Fund during its inception phase.

Theory of change

By 2034, the KBF will contribute to the following goals in select developing countries:

1. An inclusive and effective whole-of-society approach.
2. Improved policies at international, national and subnational levels that coherently enable progress towards biodiversity goals and targets.
3. Enhanced human, technical and financial capacities and cooperation to support the implementation and monitoring of the Fund.
4. A marked increase in diversified financial resources that directly support implementation of Fund programmes and innovations.

In terms of outcomes, stakeholders anticipate the theory of change will contribute to the following:

1. Restored and protected ecosystems to improve biodiversity and ecosystem services.
2. Effective mainstreaming of biodiversity into policies, regulations, planning and strategies.
3. Sustainable use of biodiversity enhanced.
4. Biodiversity mainstreamed throughout business and consumer chains to drive positive behaviours.
5. The sharing of benefits from genetic resources and digital sequence information on genetic resources.
6. Prevention and control of invasive, foreign species for enhanced biosecurity.
7. Strengthened resource mobilization for biodiversity conservation.

Throughout implementation partners will take on barriers and challenges that have limited outcomes in the past. Moving beyond siloed sector approaches to policy making, Fund approaches will also address existing inadequate capacities for delivering and monitoring progress, insufficient financial resources (including the private sector) and financial flows that are not aligned with Fund goals and targets, and low incentives to drive behavioural change, particularly a limited understanding of the importance of biodiversity for sustainable development. In all towards boosting and broadening social engagement to include indigenous peoples, local communities, women, youth and business owners.

Please submit applications and further inquiries by email to the KBF Secretariat. email: kbf@un.org