1. 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

2. 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 Includes ODA, domestic public investments, domestic private investments.

3. 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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

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

10. 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 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?