Suriname has announced its updated National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), aligning with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). This comprehensive plan emphasises increased funding for conservation and restoration, including exploring biodiversity offsetting.
Two jaguars in a forest in Suriname seen from a distance. AI generated picture.
The Ministry of Spatial Planning and Environment published the NBSAP, making Suriname among the few nations to submit their strategies ahead of the COP16 UN biodiversity summit starting on 21 October. The NBSAP outlines national approaches to meeting biodiversity targets and are supplemented by Biodiversity Finance Plans identifying funding sources.
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Suriname's strategy signifies a commitment to integrate biodiversity policies with national sustainable development goals. With 93% of its land covered by tropical rainforests, Suriname is one of the most forested nations. Despite low deforestation rates, pressures from land conversion, fisheries, urban development, agriculture, and forestry are growing.
The NBSAP sets four main goals: conserving biodiversity, sustainably using nature, equitable benefit sharing, and creating enabling conditions. Highlighting Suriname's economic constraints, the plan prioritises innovative funding mechanisms and increasing knowledge about financing options.
Biodiversity offsetting and climate financing are seen as promising opportunities. The strategy aims to strengthen ecosystem service payments, foster public-private partnerships, and establish a national nature fund supported partly by extractive industry revenues.
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Suriname's updated strategy also focuses on expanding protected areas, enhancing biodiversity data collection, and improving monitoring systems. Previous implementation of the 2006 NBSAP was hampered by inadequate integration into national planning and a lack of monitoring.
Recent UN studies highlight the importance of evidence-based policy actions, noting that many pre-2020 national pledges lacked supporting data. The latest CBD negotiations in Nairobi moved closer to finalising a global monitoring framework for the GBF, expected at COP16.
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