Successes and Challenges in Tracking and Reporting on CBD-related Resource Mobilization Experiences from Canada Scott Wilson, Environment Canada WGRI-5, Montreal, Canada June 19, 2014

What has Canada done? In response to Decision X/3, Canada was one of the first CBD Parties to submit a report on its resource mobilization data in June 2012. A reasonable set of financing statistics is needed to be able to inform policy discussions. Canada developed its own methodology to try to count its national biodiversity investments. The report provided an “indicative estimate of the scale and scope of resources being mobilized by Canada and Canadians in support of the objectives of the CBD” for the years 2006-2010. Includes ODA, domestic public investments, domestic private investments.

How?: Public Domestic Investments Successes Use of existing data (Departmental Performance Reports) Data from Statistics Canada Challenges: Various levels of government No “biodiversity” categories Annual changes in budget / results lines Compiling data for local governments

How?: Public Domestic Investments Example: budget / results line that change

How?: Public International Investments (ODA) Successes Use of OECD CRS database Use of national ODA database Review of sample of projects to determine sectoral focus Estimates for multilateral contributions Challenges Multilateral contributions Rio Markers/OECD-DAC: Large annual fluctuations in data Policy tagging issues (in-house) Differences between internally-generated data and Rio Marker data

How?: Public International Investments (ODA) Example: multilateral contributions IDA (World Bank) UNDP core funding

How?: Private Sector Domestic Investments Successes: Statistics Canada data from business surveys Included data from “user fees” Sample of largest domestic NGOs Estimates for academic institutions Challenges: Data based only on periodic surveys No “biodiversity” category

How?: Private Sector Domestic Investments Example: Businesses expenditures User fees (protected areas, fishing, hunting)

How?: Private Sector International Investments Challenges: No reliable data

Conclusions Successes and Lessons Learned: Existing data is available Conservative estimates “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” Be consistent with methodology (baseline vs 2011+ data) Challenges and Opportunities: Need common methodology not just on ODA, but also domestic investments Opportunity IMF Government Finance Statistics (GFS) Ongoing work to improve Rio Markers at OECD-DAC Need critical mass of data in order to determine trends How to track private sector investments? Businesses’ expenditures? Users / green markets?