{
  "version": "2026.1",
  "updated": "2026-09-25",
  "publisher": "Biodiversity Economy",
  "url": "https://biodiversityeconomy.com/ticker/",
  "licence": "This table may be reused with attribution to Biodiversity Economy and to the sources named in it. The underlying figures belong to their publishers.",
  "constants": {
    "against_nature_per_year": {
      "value": 7300000000000,
      "unit": "USD per year",
      "display": "US$7.3tn",
      "label": "Finance flowing directly against nature",
      "detail": "Private finance (US$4.9tn) and public subsidies (US$2.4tn) with direct harm to nature; 2023 data.",
      "source": "UNEP, State of Finance for Nature 2026",
      "url": "https://www.unep.org/resources/state-finance-nature-2026",
      "date": "2026-01-22"
    },
    "for_nature_per_year": {
      "value": 220000000000,
      "unit": "USD per year",
      "display": "US$220bn",
      "label": "Finance flowing into nature-based solutions",
      "detail": "About 90% public money; 2023 data.",
      "source": "UNEP, State of Finance for Nature 2026",
      "url": "https://www.unep.org/resources/state-finance-nature-2026",
      "date": "2026-01-22"
    },
    "for_nature_private_per_year": {
      "value": 23000000000,
      "unit": "USD per year",
      "display": "US$23bn",
      "label": "Private finance within the flows for nature",
      "detail": "The private share of the US$220bn; the remainder, about US$197bn, is public.",
      "source": "UNEP, State of Finance for Nature 2026",
      "url": "https://www.unep.org/resources/state-finance-nature-2026",
      "date": "2026-01-22"
    },
    "need_per_year_2030": {
      "value": 571000000000,
      "unit": "USD per year",
      "display": "US$571bn",
      "label": "Finance for nature needed each year by 2030",
      "detail": "Current flows are 38.5% of this; investment must rise 2.5 times.",
      "source": "UNEP, State of Finance for Nature 2026",
      "url": "https://www.unep.org/resources/state-finance-nature-2026",
      "date": "2026-01-22"
    },
    "dependent_gdp": {
      "value": 44000000000000,
      "unit": "USD",
      "display": "US$44tn",
      "label": "Economic value generation moderately or highly dependent on nature",
      "detail": "Over half of world GDP at the time of the study.",
      "source": "WEF and PwC, Nature Risk Rising",
      "url": "https://www.weforum.org/publications/nature-risk-rising-why-the-crisis-engulfing-nature-matters-for-business-and-the-economy/",
      "date": "2020-01-19"
    },
    "cop17_opens": {
      "value": "2026-10-19",
      "unit": "date",
      "display": "19 October 2026",
      "label": "COP17 opens in Yerevan",
      "detail": "The seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 19 to 30 October 2026.",
      "source": "CBD",
      "url": "https://www.cbd.int/meetings/COP-17",
      "date": "2026-09-25"
    },
    "eudr_applies": {
      "value": "2026-12-30",
      "unit": "date",
      "display": "30 December 2026",
      "label": "EU Deforestation Regulation applies to large and medium operators",
      "detail": "Soy, palm oil, cocoa, coffee, cattle products, rubber and wood placed on the EU market must be shown to be deforestation-free.",
      "source": "European Commission",
      "url": "https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/forests/deforestation/regulation-deforestation-free-products_en",
      "date": "2026-09-25"
    }
  },
  "method": "The counters spread each annual figure evenly across the year: US$7.3tn over 31,536,000 seconds is US$231,481 a second against nature, and US$220bn is US$6,976 a second for it. \"This year so far\" counts from 1 January at 00:00 UTC; \"since you opened this page\" counts from the moment the page loaded. Actual flows are uneven through the year; the rate shown is the annual average. The clock is the reader's device, read in UTC. Countdowns are in calendar days, UTC.",
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-25",
      "version": "2026.1",
      "note": "First published version of the constants file and the embed. Figures unchanged from the site's launch on 21 September 2026."
    }
  ]
}