Options for Resource Mobilization, including Innovative Financialmechanisms, and a Draft Strategy for Resource Mobilization Insupport of the Achievement of the Objectives of the Convention

At its eighth meeting, the Conference of the Parties, in its decision VIII/13, decided to conduct an in-depth review of the availability of financial resources, including through the financial mechanism, at its ninth meeting, and requested the Executive Secretary, in consultation with Parties, Governments and relevant partners, to explore all options for resource mobilization including innovative financial mechanisms and to develop a draft strategy for resource mobilization in support of the achievement of the objectives of the Convention, taking into account the elements of the in-depth review, and to present a report on these options and the draft strategy to the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties through the Ad Hoc Open Ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention. The present note has been prepared in response to that request.