A biodiversity market could unlock $137 billion in financial flows to advance Australian biodiversity outcomes by 2050.
Our latest report A nature-positive Australia: The value of an Australian biodiversity market explores ways in which government, landowners, First Nations peoples, industry and philanthropic partners could work together to address the nation’s rapidly declining biodiversity ecosystems, and examines the possibility of a market to complement existing conservation efforts.
The report’s key findings include;
To understand the potential future value of a biodiversity market, we have modelled the financial flows to biodiversity from 2022 to 2050. We have adapted the OECD’s Global Biodiversity Finance estimation methodology for relevance to the Australian context.
We see this report as an opportunity to start the conversation across all stakeholder groups on the design upon which a nature-positive biodiversity market in Australia could be considered and built. We know that it is through broad stakeholder engagement on the framework, including its application, governance and measurement, that such reform can truly succeed.
Jeremy Thorpe
Partner & Chief Economist, Insight & Economics, PwC Australia
Tel: +61 416 245 535
Executive Director - Global Centre for Nature Positive Business, PwC Australia
Tel: +61 455 510 015
