1. We strongly encourage the active involvement and commitment of all social and economic sectors - intergovernmental bodies and national governments, financial organisations, research institutions, non-governmental organisations and citizen groups, trade and industry along with their professional organisations and institutions:

• to finance the conservation and restoration of biological and landscape diversity, according to the ways and means appropriate to each, and taking into account the ten strategic principles of the Strategy, and
• to engage in awareness-raising regarding their initiatives.

2. We call upon the public and private investors to ensure adequate environmental impact assessment of all investments, and to withhold funding when there is the potential for significant damage to the natural environment and landscapes, or to ensure adequate compensation in the case of over-riding public interest.

3. Realizing that Central, Eastern and Southern European countries, involved in the UN-ECE process, should be given special attention within the priorities of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy, we urge the European Union and the recipient countries to ensure the involvement of biodiversity authorities in the negotiation mechanisms for association agreements and the PHARE, TACIS and MEDA programmes, and:

• to further increase the support for biological and landscape diversity conservation through the LIFE Regulation and the Agri-Environmental measures of the European Union,
• to increase the nature conservation component within PHARE expenditure, and to broaden the scope of the TACIS Regulation, so as to include comprehensive environmental, biological and landscape diversity objectives by a specific component and to allocate sufficient funds for this purpose;

4. We urge the European Union to fully integrate all its policies and programmes, especially its common agricultural and fisheries policies, regional development and international trade policies, taking account of the objectives of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy.

5. We urge the PPC to fully explore the contribution it can make to the biological and landscape diversity component of the projects it facilitates.

6. We urge the banking and investment community to increase their efforts to identify investment opportunities which will help achieve biodiversity objectives and, in this context, to further examine ways in which grant-money, from both in-country and donor sources, can be associated with such commercial-based financing.

7. We urge that lotteries and the gaming industry earmark a percentage of their earnings for safeguarding biological and landscape diversity, including the purchase of land for nature and landscape conservation, or to consider that a special lottery be organised for nature conservation purposes.

8. We urge the commercial sector to identify opportunities to conserve and enhance biological and landscape diversity through investment in sustainable agriculture, forestry, fisheries, tourism, and recreation; through economies made by assuring that industrial processes are based upon criteria of sustainable resource use; and through the added benefit of such policies for the improved health of their employees and enhancement of their public image.

9. We urge that the Council and Executive Bureau for the Implementation of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy make every effort to give priority to fund-raising and further the implementation of these recommendations.