We are co-organising a side event at the SBI in Nairobi titled “What Incentives Work for Biodiversity at the Local Level?”The event will discuss the impacts of subsidies and incentives on biodiversity, focusing on Target 18 of the Global Biodiversity Framework, and involve various stakeholders.
We are co-organising an engaging side event at the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI) happening in Nairobi to discuss the critical topic: “What incentives work for biodiversity at the local level?” This conversation will focus on profiling subsidies and incentives for sub-national implementation, aligned with Target 18 of the Global Biodiversity Framework, which requires Parties to identify and reform harmful incentives and subsidies by 2025.
This side event aims to open a dialogue on identifying significant subsidies and incentives for sub-national biodiversity planning and implementation. We will explore how ground-level actors can contribute to monitoring progress towards achieving Target 18. The event will feature a mix of presentations and panel discussions, highlighting both positive and negative incentives, with insights from various stakeholders, including governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), international organizations, and non-governmental organizations.
Main discussion points of the event are twofold impacts of related subsidies and incentives:
- Direct Impacts: How subsidies directly affect primary production activities, resource availability, ecosystem integrity, and human well-being in local landscapes and seascapes.
- Indirect Impacts: Exploring the spillover effects from subsidies supporting other activities that impact traditional production practices, resource diversity, availability, and community well-being.
The guiding questions of the event are:
- Icebreaker: Define subsidies and discuss “what makes a subsidy harmful or beneficial?”
- Transitions towards Sustainability: Considering the socio-political dimensions at the local level, what factors are influential and motivational for aligning decisions with sustainability and policy coherence?
- Scale and Effectiveness: Are national incentive programs sufficient for positive impacts on biodiversity? What scale is necessary, and what mechanisms need adjustment for achieving the desired impact?
- Assessment and Monitoring: How can we capture the positive and negative impacts across various actors in an interconnected world?
- Reconciling Multiple Values of Nature: How do subsidies and incentives modulate priorities, and how can we reconcile these towards a ‘greater good’ goal?
- Power of Partnerships: Which partners are crucial in designing and implementing successful subsidy programs?
The event is co-organised with the Satoyama Initiative (UNU-IAS), The International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI), the Secretariat of Convention on Biological Diversity, the Alliance for Mediterranean Nature & Culture, UN Trade & Development BioTrade Initiative and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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