The WEF 2025 High-Level Principles to Guide the Biodiversity Credit Market outlines a framework to ensure integrity, transparency, and impact in emerging biodiversity credit systems. With nature loss accelerating, the report emphasizes credits must deliver measurable conservation outcomes, avoid greenwashing, and complement—not replace—emissions reductions. Principles include robust science-based baselines, equitable benefit-sharing with local communities, transparent governance, and alignment with global biodiversity goals. The report calls for collaboration among policymakers, businesses, and civil society to scale credible markets that channel private finance into protecting and restoring ecosystems while supporting inclusive, sustainable development.

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