A3 – Sustainable Financing for Biodiversity Conservation

Session > A3 – Sustainable Financing for Biodiversity Conservation

Indonesia Pavilion COP30

November 13, 2025 | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

About

A. Background

Biodiversity is the foundation of life on Earth, providing essential ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, clean water supply, plant pollination, and protection against natural disasters. Indonesia, as a megabiodiversity country, has a significant responsibility to safeguard its natural resources. However, habitat degradation, climate change, pollution, and overexploitation of natural resources have threatened its sustainability. Effective conservation efforts require adequate, sustainable, and predictable funding, yet a significant financing gap remains. Therefore, sustainable financing is key to ensuring the sustainability of conservation efforts while integrating economic, social, and environmental interests.

B. Objective and Output

Objectives:

Explore sustainable financing strategies that can ensure long-term funding for biodiversity conservation.
Introduce innovative financial instruments such as payments for ecosystem services (PES), green and blue bonds, conservation trust funds, and results-based financing.
Identify opportunities for multi-stakeholder collaboration to integrate biodiversity values into national development planning and economic policies.

Output:

Raising stakeholder awareness of the urgency of sustainable financing for biodiversity conservation.
Mapping potential funding sources from the public sector, private sector, international aid, and innovative mechanisms.
Policy recommendations to strengthen conservation funding governance, transparency, and accountability in fund use.
Examples of best practices for implementing sustainable financing that can be replicated across various regions and ecosystem contexts.

C. Target Audience

Target Audiences:

This dialogue is aimed at policymakers at the national and regional levels, financial institutions, the private sector committed to sustainability, civil society organizations, researchers and academics, and local communities involved in natural resource management. By presenting diverse perspectives, this session is expected to provide a forum for discussion that builds synergies to strengthen conservation financing, maintain ecosystem sustainability, and support the transition to an inclusive green economy.

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Presentations

Speakers

Sunandar

Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Republic of Indonesia

Noer Adi Wardojo

Senior Advisor to the Minister for Biodiversity and Socio-Cultural Resource Conservation, Ministry of Environment/Environmental Protection Agency, Republic of Indonesia

Ruandha Agung Sugardiman

Indonesia Expert Advisory Council for FOLU Net Sink 2030, Ministry of Forestry, Republic of Indonesia

Dan Zarin

Executive Director Forest and Climate Change, Wildlife Conservation Society

Valerie Hickey

World Bank Global Director for Climate

Endah Tri Kurniawaty

Director of Fundraising and Development, Indonesian Environmental Fund (BPDLH)

Moderator

Ari Wijarnarko Adipratomo

Policy Advocacy Manager, Climate Reality Project Indonesia