New data on public biodiversity spending

This is an important year for global biodiversity conservation and restoration as a key policy objective. 2021 kicks off the United Nation’s Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, sees the UK Government publish the Dasgupta Review on the economics of biodiversity¹, and will hopefully see the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) take place, where international commitments are anticipated. Writing in Nature Ecology & Evolution, Seidl et al.² contribute to this global effort by introducing new data on national-level biodiversity spending and presenting preliminary analyses of general trends and correlations of this directed finance with a measure of biodiversity.