Article by Mark Opel
December 2, 2025
We need to embrace the irony that to get the private sector investing in nature, we have to first focus on the public sector.
Read the full article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review here.
Press Release
November 6, 2025
BELÉM - At an event during the leadup to COP30 in Belem today, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility was officially launched with numerous countries pledging more than $5B in financial commitments.
Read the full statement here.
Official Statement
November 5th, 2025
Campaign for Nature is deeply dismayed by reports that the United Kingdom will not invest in the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). The Prime Minister making this announcement on the eve of COP30 undermines Brazil’s headline nature goal for the COP.
Read the full statement here.
Op Ed by Brian O’Donnell
October 29, 2025
Bill Gates’ philanthropy has positively transformed global public health, but the approach he now advocates for addressing climate change in his recent Climate Memo is wrongheaded. In the 17-page document, Gates urges a pivot from meeting temperature targets to reducing human suffering through adaptation.
Read the full Op Ed here.
Official Statement
September 23, 2025
Today, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced that Brazil will contribute US$1 billion to the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), becoming the first nation to contribute to the new fund, which is designed to incentivize the long-term protection of tropical forests worldwide. In response to this announcement, Brian O’Donnell, Director of the Campaign for Nature, issued a statement of congratulations.
Read the full statement here.
Official Statement
June 14, 2025
Significant progress has been made this week on ocean protection, thanks largely to the leadership of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs & LCs), particularly across the Pacific. Never before has the ocean received so much high-level political attention. The UN Ocean Conference should not be just a one-week event, but rather the start of a continuous, accelerated, and more effective approach to ocean conservation.
Read the full statement here.
Press Release
5 June 2025
As world leaders prepare to gather at the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice next week, a major new report warns that global marine protection efforts are critically underfunded - threatening ocean health, livelihoods, food security and global prosperity.
Read the full release and report here.
Official Statement
27 February 2025
A decision today in Rome on how to finance the global plan to address the unprecedented biodiversity crisis is very welcome after years of negotiations. In these turbulent times, it is inspiring to see 196 countries come together and overcome differences and national challenges to reach a shared solution. We are grateful to the Parties to the Convention who spent long hours this week to reach a compromise.
Read the full statement here.
Joint Statement
11 February, 2025
In October 2024, countries from around the world convened in Cali, Colombia, at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The negotiations were intended to boost the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (K-M GBF), the historic plan for safeguarding nature that all countries agreed to in 2022. The meeting in Cali delivered some notable successes; however, the COP was adjourned with the resource mobilization strategy left unresolved.
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Official Statement
2nd November, 2024
Some issues were advanced at COP16, and COP President Colombia and Parties to the Convention deserve praise for making progress in a difficult negotiating atmosphere, particularly with the historic adoption of a subsidiary body for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, which empowers Indigenous peoples and local communities with a greater role in influencing the outcomes of the Convention, and for creating a mechanism that will finally make companies accountable for paying their fair share for the use of biodiversity (by advancing the sharing of benefits derived from the digital sequencing of information from genetic resources with the countries and people where they were acquired, particularly Indigenous peoples and local communities via a newly established Cali Fund).
Read full statement here.
Press Release
October 18th 2024
NEW data finds over half of all countries signed up to commit at least $20 billion (£15.6 billion) a year in international biodiversity finance are providing less than 50% of their ‘fair share’. ODI’s ‘fair share’ methodology was the first study to measure how much each individual developed country should be providing to developing countries in order to keep the commitment they made in the landmark 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Our new findings draw upon the OECD’s latest annual report, issued in September. The next edition of this series will be out in early 2025.
Read the full report here.
Official Statement
September 18, 2024
On September 18, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its annual report of the main trends in international biodiversity finance. In response to the report, Campaign for Nature issues the following statement and an analysis of the report to highlight encouraging trends, areas of concern and recommendations for moving forward.
Read the full statement here.
Project Syndicate
July 11 2024
By Mary Robinson - Two years ago, developed countries pledged to provide the Global South with at least $20 billion annually by 2025 to help preserve 30% of the world’s land and oceans. But a new report reveals that most countries have failed to contribute their fair share, severely impeding our ability to achieve crucial climate goals.
Read the full op-ed here.
Politics Home
10 July 2024
By Lord Zac Goldsmith - We’re now less than one year away from that target deadline and new research from the ODI, commissioned by the Campaign for Nature, finds that unfortunately we are a long way off. According to the latest figures available from the OECD only two countries were paying their fair share of this funding that we agreed to, and the UK is not one of them. On the contrary we are some way from keeping our word and doing our part.
Read the full op-ed here.
The Canberra Times
19 June, 2024
By Mike Rann - Australia should be proud that we are contributing significantly more than the likes of the UK, Canada or Switzerland, but now we need a last push to meet our commitments. A crucial new report by the ODI, commissioned by the Campaign for Nature, shows the scale of the global challenge. It’s one that Australia is uniquely positioned to help solve.
Read full op-ed here.