Biodiversity Targets Will Not Be Met Without Debt and Tax Justice

2020 | Jessica Dempsey, Audrey Irvine-Broque, Sara Nelson

From the report: “Approaches to financing biodiversity conservation tend to focus on funding gaps, but fail to address underlying political and economic drivers. We propose two strategies — tax reform and debt justice — to supercharge public financing for biodiversity and deflate harmful financial flows, while chipping away at the causes of state austerity.”

Dempsey, J., Irvine-Broque, A., Bigger, P., Christiansen, J., Muchhala, B., Nelson, S., Rojas-Marchini, F., Shapiro-Garza, E., Schuldt, A. & DiSilvestro, A. (2021). Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice. Nat Ecol Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01619-5. Also available at: https://rdcu.be/cE6PN.