National Accounts and the. Initiatives at the Global and Regional Levels: The ASEAN Experience

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1 National Accounts and the Environment PolicyDemand and Initiatives at the Global and Regional Levels: The ASEAN Experience Roberto V. Oliva Executive Director ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity ASEAN Biodiversity Occupies only 3% of the earth s surface but... Home to 3 mega diverse countries Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Home to 19% of plants and animal species assessed by IUCN Spans several biogeographical units Malesia Wallacea Sundaland Indo Burma Central C t lindo Pacific Has 1/3 of the coral reef areas in the world 1

2 ACB as an Institution An intergovernmental regional centre of excellence established through an agreement in 2005 among the Governments of the ASEAN Member States, namely: Brunei Darussalam Myanmar Cambodia Philippines hl Indonesia Singapore Lao PDR Thailand Malaysia Vietnam ACB Mandate To facilitate cooperation and coordination among the 10 ASEAN Member States on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of such biodiversity in the ASEAN region 2

3 Thematic Areas Access and Benefits Sharing Ecotourism and Biodiversity Agro biodiversity Global Taxonomy Initiative ASEAN Heritage Parks and Protected Area Management Invasive Alien Species Biodiversity Information Management Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Business and Biodiversity Peatland and Wetland Management and Biodiversity Climate Change and Biodiversity Wildlife Law Enforcement and Biodiversity Coastaland and Marine Biodiversity Urban Biodiversity Communication, Education and Public Awareness 3

4 ACB Network of Partners Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) Ramsar Convention Secretariat ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN WEN) FREELAND Foundation o Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Birdlife International Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) United Nations Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Environment Facility (GEF) 4

5 European Union Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Japan Ministry of Environment (Japan ASEAN Integration Fund) China ASEAN Environmental Cooperation Centre Minnistry of Environmental Protection, China ROK AKECOP Cooperation on Forestry ACB and Environmental Valuation Environmental accounting and valuation important for ACB to fulfill mandate of protection, sustainable use and access to benefit sharing Address directly in thematic areas: Access and Benefits Sharing Ecotourism and Biodiversity ASEAN Heritage Parks andprotected Area Management Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Business and Biodiversity Peatland and Wetland Management and Biodiversity Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Urban Biodiversity 5

6 Initiatives In2011 and 2012, ACB collaborated with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and GIZ to jointly undertake projects on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) for Southeast Asia. ACB organized high level policy dialogues that brought together senior officials from the different sectors of government (i.e. environment, finance, economics/planning) in Southeast Asia on TEEB ACB reached out to senior officials from ASEAN bodies beyond the environment sector: ASEAN Finance Deputies and ASEAN Senior Economic Officials. 6

7 ACB support to inclusion of environmental valuation in updating National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) of ASEAN Member States Inclusion of environmental valuation in ASEAN Heritage Parks management plans Way Forward for Environmental Valuation in the ASEAN Region ACB and GIZ to launch the ASEAN TEEB Programme: maintain the momentum of TEEB mainstreaming and application; and initiate and encourage further development and implementation of TEEB and TEEB related activities in the ASEAN region. 7

8 ACB and Environmental Economics Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) signed Letter of Cooperation as a joint commitment to moving forward the agenda of enhanced biodiversity conservation by advocating environmental economics and resource valuation in the ASEAN region. ACB to strengthen the ASEAN Heritage Parks to include environmental valuation, participation of stakeholders. Continuous partnership with international organizations and bodies dealing with environmental valuation and accounting. 8

9 Thank you 9