Biodiversity credits are a mechanism designed with the intention to channel financial resources to achieve the biodiversity targets coined by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. It belongs to a bigger family of nature-based credits and operates to complement philanthropic funding and other non-market financial sources to support and incentivize conservation and restoration.

This project, “Biodiversity Credits: Incentives to Promote Biodiversity-Friendly Land Uses”, was initiated by Dr. Montagnini with the primary goal of examining biodiversity credits feasibility to promote biodiversity-friendly land use systems, such as agroforestry, silvopasture, sustainable forestry, permaculture, and other agroecological practices. Anchored by this goal, the project extends to delineate the ecologic, social, and financial logic of biodiversity credits worldwide and under the Latin American and North American context.