The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014.
Canada said it would put in 200 million Canadian dollars ($147.20 million) and the United Kingdom contributed 10 million pounds ($12.60 million).
Campaign group Avaaz said the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund needed $200 million from at least three donors by December to be considered operational.
"Surely donors can come up with the paltry $40 million" needed to get the fund up and running.
Framework Convention on Climate Change which has provided more than $23 billion to thousands of projects in the past 30 years.
Persons:
Carlo Allegri, David Cooper, Avaaz, Oscar Soria, Gloria Dickie, Isla Binnie, David Gregorio Our
Organizations:
United Nations, UN, New York, REUTERS, Biological Diversity, Nations, Global Environment, Thomson
Locations:
Manhattan, New, Vancouver, Canada, United Kingdom, Kunming, Montreal, London, New York