Rosa Lemos de Sá, CEO, Funbio, Brazil - National fund mechanisms for sustainability

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OECD workshop – Paris
February 2015

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What is Funbio?
• Funbio is an Environmental Fund that mobilizes resources and offers services
towards biodiversity conservation, such as:
– design and management of financial mechanisms
– selection and management of projects
– procurement and hiring for environmental projects
– territorial analysis to define agendas and investments
– solutions to mitigate climate change
– coordination of actors and projects in international networks

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To provide strategic resources for biodiversity
conservation
Mission
Vision
To become the benchmark in enabling strategic resources and solutions
for the conservation of biodiversity

4. Our projects

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• Founded in 1995, Funbio is a non-profit organization
• Funbio is a result of the international agreements of Rio 92, the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD). It was created as a financial mechanism to support the
implementation of CBD in Brazil, aiming to engage the private sector.
Origin

6. Territorial/agenda funding environment
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Funbio and the Private Sector
Private sector funding
for biodiversity &
ecosystem services
Legal
obligations
CSR
Business
approach
Leveraging effect:
other sources
Public
funding
International
cooperation
Philantropy

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Examples
CSR
Business
approach
• 0.5M USD for carbon credits of REDD+
Project of the Surui Indigenous People
• 1M USD donation for the Amazon
Region Protected Areas program
• Amazon Program – sustainable use of
biodiversity for social economic
development of the region
• Tapajós-Arapiuns Territory – biodiversity
based value chains (Probio II – about 5M
USD)
Fund design
and mgt
Fund design
and mgt;
procurement
Strategy
design
Fund design
and mgt;
stakeholders
engagement
Funbio

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Examples
CSR
CSR
• Juruti Fund – a sustainable
development fund for the municipality
of Juruti, in the Amazon, where the
company has a bauxite mine (Probio II –
about 2M USD)
• Map and develop value chains in the
buffer zone of the company’s reserve to
deliver sustainable development to the
region (Probio II – about 200K USD)
Fund design
and mgt
Strategy
design
Funbio
Fund design
and mgt
Strategy
design

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Examples
Business
approach
• Social environmental strategy for the
new paper plant construction focusing
sustainable development
Strategy
design
Funbio
CSR
• 5M USD donation for the Amazon
Region Protected Areas program
• 1M USD donation for the Amazon
Region Protected Areas program
Fund design
and mgt;
procurement

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Examples
Legal
Obligations
Companies have to compensate their
impacts supporting PAs to obtain licenses
(SNUC law)
• About 154M USD allocated for 49 PAs in
the state of Rio de Janeiro in 4 years
Environmental
compensation
Mechanisms
design and
management;
procurement;
accountability
Funbio
Lincesing
conditions
Companies have to implement a project
to obtain licenses
• About 2M USD from Petrobras to the
marine manatee monitoring
53 different
operations/
infrastructure

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Examples
Legal
Obligations
Mechanisms
design and
management;
procurement;
accountability
FunbioAdjustment
Agreements
Companies agree with Public Prosecution
Office to finance actions, avoiding a long
process of civil suits or criminal
proceedings.
• About 1,5M USD from seismic
companies for potential impacts to
marine fauna projects
• About 20M USD from Chevron for a oil
spill to fisheries and marine
conservation (under negotiation)

12. Projects with the
private sector

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Rosa Lemos de Sá
+55 21 21235301
rosa.lemos@funbio.org.br
www.funbio.org.br