Biodiversity Policy

Biodiversity loss is a complex issue, and biodiversity conservation relies on strategies involving a wide range of policy approaches such as regulatory command and control, economic incentives, supporting investment, the promotion of innovation, enabling actors, capacity-building, and goal-setting, among others. Over the last 10 years, and particularly since the last GEO, awareness about the loss of biodiversity has risen significantly in international policy, health, and economic discourse. A set of policy clusters and five specific policy instruments pertaining to these clusters is elaborated. Five case studies are drawn as illustrative examples of these policy instruments; one of them is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.