The report was prepared by Juan Casado-Asensio and Dominique Blaquier under the oversight and supervision of Jens Sedemund. Haje Schütte provided strategic guidance, while the report also benefitted from the inputs of several OECD colleagues, from the Development Co-operation Directorate: Wiebke Bartz-Zuccala, Marisa Berbegal-Ibañez, Olivier Bouret, Xavier Bryant, Guillaume Delalande, Abdoulaye Fabregas, Manon Fortemps, Tomas Hos, Léopold Ghins, Giorgio Gualberti, Jonathan Marley, Nadine Piefer-Söyler, Maria Reis, Nathan Rueche, Piera Tortora and Kazuma Yabe and from the Environment Directorate, Edward Perry and Katia Karousakis. In addition, the authors would like to thank Sokob Challener for administrative support, as well as Joelle Bassoul, Ola Kasneci, and Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte for communications, Fiona Hinchcliffe for editing and Benoît Melin for translations support.
The report was conceptualised with, and received the steer and useful comments from members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Environment and Development Co-operation Network (ENVIRONET), Friends of Biodiversity Group, namely: Enrico dal Farra and Sandra Wibmer, (Austrian Development Agency); Sébastien Willemart and Annemarie Van der Avort (Belgium Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation); Moreno Padilla, Catherine Potvin, Pierre-Luc Saindon, and Hannane Sellali (Global Affairs Canada); Mathieu Babinet, Eléonore Cecillon, Stéphane Cieniewski, Arthur Francois, Thomas Garreau, and Julien Velud (French Treasury); Jean-Baptiste D’Isidoro, Eric David, Paul Salvaire, Laure Serra and Louise Rousseau (French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs); Romain Chabrol and Naïg Cozannet (Agence Française de Development); Hélène Perier, Bernard Crabbé, Nadia Deckert and Juan Palerm (European Commission); Lorenzo Orioli and Iacopo Sinibaldi (Italian Agency for Development Cooperation); Bente Herstad (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation); Miguel Galante (Camões Cooperation and Language Institute, Portugal Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Ulrika Åkesson, Anna Axelsson and Maria Schultz (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency); Luke Bailey and Samuel Leigh (United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office); Jack Berry, William Broad, Bronwen Butler, Thomas Byrne, Joanna Macrae (United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs); Massimiliano Riva (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development); Damien Barchiche and Elise Dufief (Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales); Anna Ducros, Ebony Holland, Dilys Roe and Paul Steele (International Institute for Environment and Development); Markus Lehmann-Kleineidam (UN Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat); Marco Arlaud, Annabelle Trinidad and Onno van den Heuvel (UNDP Biodiversity Finance Initiative); Valerie Kapos (UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre); Garo Batmanian, Lisa Farroway, Olga Gavryliuk, Samantha Power, Fiona Elizabeth Stewart and Elisson M. Wright (The World Bank).
Additional inputs were provided by Jurgis Pierre-Louis Sapijanskas and Mark Thomas Zimsky, Global Environmental Facility; Chris Dickinson, Green Climate Fund; Maria Dutto, Natalia Vargas Talero and Cristina Xalma, Ibero-American General Secretariat; Mauricio Luna, International Institute for Sustainable Development; Niklaus Eggenberger, Rwodah Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Maha Hamad Al Atiaya, Jawaher Badi Al-Naemi, Al-Jazi Abdulla Al-Buainain, Reem Ghanim Al-Sulaiti and Khalid Omar Abdulhadi, Qatar Fund for Development; and Torbjørn Gjefsen, Rainforest Foundation Norway.