Recently, Professor Zhang Li's team from the School of Life Sciences at Beijing Normal University, in collaboration with multiple domestic and international universities and leading conservation organizations, published research findings titled "Scaling biodiversity conservation through institutional reform" in Conservation Biology. The study unequivocally indicates that the core bottleneck in global biodiversity conservation is not merely funding shortages but institutional barriers, providing critical theoretical support for global ecological governance and the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

The Conclusion of the paper is as follows:

Delivering KMGBF requires finance systems that are credible, equitable, and grounded in real political economy constraints. Phased corporate contributions, blended finance, and targeted subsidy reform offer practical pathways when paired with transparency, accountability, and strengthened implementation capacity. Treating biodiversity as economic infrastructure, rather than a discretionary environmental cost, is essential to mobilize private capital and sustain political support. Moving forward, policy priorities include standardizing biodiversity-impact metrics, clarifying fiduciary rules to enable nature-related risk integration, investing in public–private monitoring capacity, and rigorously evaluating policy performance and equity outcomes. Embedding biodiversity into macroeconomic governance and financial regulation provides the most durable foundation for closing the finance gap and securing nature as a pillar of long-term human well-being.

Reference: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70282