Positive incentives: Key to progress
Detalles
Given the great importance of positive incentives that promote voluntary contributions to biodiversity conservation, a team of members of the Global Alliance for Business and Biodiversity (GPBB) and like-minded organizations has invited case studies of outstanding examples of Positive Incentives. Since the proposal was discussed at the GPBB annual meeting, this team has collected 23 case studies from 12 countries, with the aim of publishing and sharing them at COP16. The reasoning behind this effort is as follows:
Our Purpose
Humanity is facing a crisis of maturation, manifested through the interconnected challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. These problems pose serious threats to the well-being of all humanity. Addressing and mitigating these consequences requires profound transformations in economic systems, logistics, consumer behavior, and many other aspects of human activity. The efforts of governments and international institutions, while urgent and vitally needed, are insufficient to provide the required solutions.
Non-state actors have a critical role to play in this scenario, collaborating at the local, national and international levels, by raising awareness of the urgency of ending harmful practices and through creative efforts to accelerate and strengthen essential changes. Incentives that encourage and accelerate the transformations needed are valuable tools, both as state and non-state initiatives. Positive Incentives, whether monetary or non-monetary, can be aimed at discouraging harmful practices and encouraging the adoption of best practices. Through collaboration and the exchange of experiences, we can collectively contribute to the successful implementation of the MGB.
Our Opportunity
Focus our collective energy on the experience and potential of positive incentives. By positive incentives we mean: “Actions or initiatives developed with the purpose of provoking a change in the voluntary behavior of target audiences, with the effect of beneficial impacts on the conservation of biodiversity, adaptation and avoidance of climate change, and possibly other beneficial environmental impacts.” (preliminary version).
With our collaborative project we can contribute to the implementation of the GBF and the impact of COP16.
Our commitments as contributing participants
As participating organizations (including GPBB members and others), we identify valuable examples of incentives that have demonstrated significant results or significant potential. Such examples can be public (state), private (non-state) or public-private partnerships at local, national or regional level. The selected examples will be documented as case studies for an informed, but not necessarily expert, audience.
Case studies include an assessment of actual or potential weaknesses and risks, transfer to other contexts, and any recommendations for a wider audience. We are committed to generating a compendium of good practice examples that can serve to inform and motivate our GPBB community and wider audience, increasing awareness of the importance of incentives to achieve the profound and urgent transformations needed to address the environmental crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Results
Update: July 11, 2024. The 12 countries involved in this collaboration are: Brazil (7), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (4), France (1), Finland (2), Germany (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Spain (2), United Kingdom (1), USA. (1)
12 countries, 23 case studies.
