Identify and quantify by 2026, and scale up positive incentives by 2030 for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.  

1. Identify and quantify positive incentives for biodiversity
2. Identify, quantify and redirect incentives harmful to biodiversity
3. Promote and incentivize investment in nature-positive technology and products that promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable use
    

These considerations were taken into account through a participatory and consultative process. The process involved an inception workshop, a series of stakeholder consultations, technical working group meetings, and validation workshops. The process was coordinated by the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife (MECW), through the Department of Wildlife and Forestry Resources Management.

Contribution to KM-GBF Global Goals

1. Global Goal A – Ecosystem and Species Integrity

• Addresses indirect drivers of biodiversity loss by identifying, quantifying and reforming incentives that promote ecosystem degradation, habitat conversion, overexploitation and pollution.
• Supports ecosystem recovery and species conservation by redirecting harmful subsidies and incentives toward biodiversity-positive alternatives that reduce pressure on natural habitats and species.
• Creates enabling economic conditions for conservation, restoration and sustainable land, freshwater and marine management, strengthening long-term ecosystem integrity.

2. Global Goal B – Sustainable Use and Nature’s Contributions to People

• Promotes sustainable use of biodiversity by scaling up incentives that support nature-positive production systems, including agroecology, sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, forestry, ecotourism and green infrastructure.
• Enhances nature’s contributions to people by aligning public and private investment with practices that sustain food security, livelihoods, climate resilience, water regulation and other ecosystem services.
• Encourages innovation and uptake of nature-positive technologies and products that reduce waste, resource intensity and environmental impacts across value chains.

3. Global Goal C – Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing

• Supports more equitable distribution of benefits from biodiversity by redirecting public incentives toward small-scale producers, cooperatives, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), women and youth engaged in sustainable and biodiversity-positive activities.
• Strengthens access to financial and market incentives for local stewards of biodiversity, ensuring that conservation and sustainable use generate tangible socio-economic benefits at community level.
• Contributes indirectly to equitable benefit-sharing by correcting market distortions that currently favour environmentally harmful activities over biodiversity stewardship.

4. Global Goal D – Means of Implementation and Enabling Conditions

• Strengthens biodiversity finance and economic policy coherence by embedding biodiversity considerations into fiscal, subsidy and incentive frameworks across key sectors.
• Enhances national capacity to track, quantify and report biodiversity-relevant incentives, supporting transparency, accountability and evidence-based decision-making.
• Mobilises and redirects significant public and private financial flows toward biodiversity-positive investments, innovation, green jobs and nature-based solutions.
• Improves cross-sectoral coordination among finance, environment, agriculture, mining and industry institutions to ensure alignment with national biodiversity objectives and KM-GBF commitments.

1. Strong policy commitments 
2. Effective monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.
3. Innovative financial mechanisms.
4. Collaborative stakeholder engagements
5. Inter-disciplinary research teams