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Business Plan for the development of the

IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas

PROJECT Achieving and recognising fair and effective Protected and

Conserved Areas through the IUCN Green List Standard

SUBJECT Consultancy services

WORKSTREAM _The Green List Program generates adequate and sustainable _
- financial resources to help all committed sites and countries _
- improve their effectiveness_

WORKING DAYS 25-30 days

ESTIMATION

DURATION September - December 2023

CONTACT _IUCN Headquarters, Protected and Conserved Areas Team _

PERSONS Siska Sihombing

Thierry Lefebvre

A. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The IUCN Green List Protected and Conserved Areas is the first global and unique Standard
of best practice for area-based conservation. The Green List Standard aims to become the
metrics for area-based conservation effectiveness, providing a global benchmark for how to
meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century, particularly the Global Biodiversity
Framework targets, Goal A and 30x30 challenges.

The IUCN Green List is also a programme of certification for protected and conserved areas
(PCAs) that are effectively managed and fairly governed. It acts as an incentive and offers a
stepwise programme that can help make PCAs fit for the future and thus secure past
successes and future investments. Enrolled sites become part of a network and benefit from
technical support to improve their performance and impacts.

The 30x30 challenge is a global target which aims to halt the accelerating loss of species and
protect vital ecosystems that are the source of our economic security. More than 100 countries
are committed globally to increasing spatial targets to protect or effectively conserve at least
areas and public and private financing are needed to ensure long-term management, local
governance, and precise implementation mechanisms to put nature recovery by 2030.

To support this ambition, IUCN is currently implementing Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
and IUCN Strategic Partnership project to secure at least 1,000 equitable and effective
protected and conserved areas in places of importance for biodiversity through scaling the
IUCN Green List Standard, to offer a meaningful pathway to implement the new Global
Biodiversity Framework and 30x30 ambitions to secure biodiversity and climate benefits.

The IUCN Green List operations have been funded mainly through a portfolio of projects. Still,
IUCN will seek opportunities to generate direct financial support for participating sites based
on their commitment to achieving the Standard and their demonstrated progress and good
performance. At the same time, IUCN and partners require sustained financing to support

Green List operations, evaluation and Assurance, communications and outreach to ensure
quality and credibility in the Green List Standard and certification process.

Some new approaches will help move from a
project-based model to a
sustained financing

programme for the Green List operations and the participating sites:

map the existing opportunities and challenges of financing mechanisms for nature

conservation
- identify and promote innovative financing mechanisms and tools to support the

participating sites;
- explore further the series of additional revenues and funding to support an efficient

secretariat and credible Assurance;
- find synergies between national and regional projects, and improve the allocation of

resources to Green List development priorities;
- link the sustainable financing efforts to the overall vision of 30x30 challenges;
- link the capacity to demonstrate positive impacts on biodiversity and society to

available financial investment and stimulate collaboration with existing financial
mechanisms, such as trust funds and special granting programmes.

B. PURPOSE AND ACTIVITIES
The Business Plan will operationalise the Green List and ensure resources are available to
implement the programme. This sustainability in financing the overall programme aims to
strengthen the governance and the core operations of the IUCN Green List at the global and
regional levels.

The Green List Business Plan (GLBP) should strategically identify one or more innovative
mechanisms to support GL resources and capacities to 2030 and describe all the resources
and capacities that will have been secured as increased financing assets. It will define a
business model to strengthen fundraising and financing mechanisms. It may include new
sources of income, key partnerships, marketing and outreach strategy and optimising the cost
structure.

The GLBP can also be consulted by committed protected and conserved areas. Every site
can benefit from creating a clear, concise, easy-to-follow business plan to follow its GL
pathway. The GLBP is a tool to understand financial gaps in implementing GL objectives. It
can monitor progress, show accountability, control t