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SUSTAINABLE FINANCING OF MPAs IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: A FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

5.2 Financial needs and financing gap for ideal management of
MPAs

5.2.1 Financial needs for achievement of Aichi Target 11

a) State-of-the-art on financial needs for the ideal management scenario

A literature review highlighted the lack of consideration of the Aichi target objectives in the
analyses of national strategy and objectives. Two countries, however, have considered
these targets and attempted to assess the financial needs to attain such targets:
▪ In its national strategy for the creation and management of MPAs, France estimated
that to conserve 20% of its marine areas (twice the Aichi target) through a system of
Protected Areas, an operating budget of €170M would be necessary by 2020. In view
of the current situation, this budget would be mainly borne by the government (almost
€110M) (MEDDE, 2014).
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▪ From Croatia’s first planning document , the 2013 CBD Resource Mobilisation
Information Digest concluded it was impossible to estimate with accuracy the total
funds needed for the Croatian NSAP implementation.
Except for these, no study has attempted to financially characterise attainment of Aichi
Target 11, as to say the financing gap with regard to conservation of 10% of marine
areas through a system of Protected Areas. The following sections offer the first
opportunity to introduce this issue for the Mediterranean region and to evaluate the
investments required for the various countries.

b) Needs for the creation of MPAs to achieve Aichi targets
Based on 2012 data (Gabrié et al., 2012), the table below presents the per-country surface
areas needed for achievement of Aichi Target 11. The following sections propose to
extrapolate local results to these additional surface areas.

15 - Croatia (2000). An Overview of the State of Biological and Landscape Diversity of Croatia: with the Protection Strategy and
Action Plans, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning, Zagreb, December 2000, 158 pp.

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