This report was developed by the OECD Environment Directorate (ENV), directed by Jo Tyndall. The lead authors were Edward Perry (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 8), Giulio Mazzone (Chapters 4, 5) and Katia Karousakis (Chapter 7), under the guidance of Walid Oueslati, Head of the Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division.
The authors are grateful for feedback received from Delegates of the OECD Working Party on Biodiversity Water and Ecosystems and ENVIRONET, as well as OECD colleagues Marta Arbinolo (ENV), Dominique Blaquier (Development Co-operation Directorate – DCD), Peter Borkey (ENV), Juan Casado Asensio (DCD), Marijn Korndewal (ENV), Jussi Lankoski (Trade and Agriculture Directorate – TAD), Xavier Leflaive (ENV), Will Symes (TAD), Simon Touboul (ENV), Hugo Valin (TAD), Klas Wetterberg (ENV). The authors are also grateful to Elodie Prata Leal (ENV) for her formatting and co-ordination support, Jane Kynaston (ENV) for the design of the accompanying Policy Highlights document, and to Sama Al Taher Cucci (ENV), William Foster (ENV) and Beth Del Bourgo (ENV) for their communications support.
The authors thank the experts who spoke at OECD’s International Workshop on Scaling up Biodiversity-Positive Incentives for their valuable insights and examples which contributed to the report, as well as Leon Bennun (Independent Biodiversity Advisor, Naturaleon) and Niak Koh (Postdoctoral Researcher, Nature Positive Hub, University of Oxford) for their review of Chapter 6.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding received by the European Union.