The need to look at the ‘reversing incentives’ approach options to boost biodiversity conservation activities globally was discussed at the working group meeting on the fourth day of the United Nations conference on biological diversity (CBD) on Thursday.
Diversity conservation is an uphill struggle to achieve sustainable development. The expenditure needs of individual countries and the global community for biodiversity conservation depend on national and international policies.
“The incentives given can be harmful to certain areas. The government needs to identify perverse outcomes and look out for reform processes in incentives in order to achieve sustainable conservation model,” David Ainsworth, Information Officer, Secretariat of the CBD, told mediapersons here.
The parties/governments are now deliberating and discussing the issue, he added.
The parties have also discussed the importance of ‘biofuel’. “Biofuel is an energy and trade issue. The governments are working to come up with innovative approaches to biofuel and to do research on bringing out new mechanisms in biofuel,” he said.