TEEB as a tool for biodiversity mainstreaming

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1 TEEB as a tool for biodiversity mainstreaming Nick Bertrand United Nations Environment Programme Investing in peatlands: Partnerships for a new peatland era September 2013 York, UK

2 Water Cooperation building partnerships

3 TEEB: an overview TEEB for Water & Wetlands Uptake in international policy Uptake in business

4 Why TEEB? Because the economic invisibility of nature is a problem addressing losses requires knowledge from many disciplines (ecology, economics, policy, ) to be synthesized, integrated and acted upon different decision-making groups need different types of information and guidance successes need be understood, broadcast replicated and scaled

5 Phase 3 Phase 2 Phase Water & Wetlands Country Studies Oceans & Coasts Arctic Agriculture & Food peatlands

6 29 August 2013 Norwegian expert commission on values of ecosystem services

7 TEEB tiered approach 1. Recognizing value: a feature of all human societies and communities 2. Demonstrating value: in economic terms, to support decision making 3. Capturing value: introduce mechanisms that incorporate the values of ecosystems into decision making

8 What is TEEB and how does it integrate into the policy landscape? Understanding of the economic significance distortions and incentives options (but also poverty reduction) adequate incentives for provisioning of public goods, etc... It is usually not feasible and probably not even desirable to address all issues, all ecosystem services and all regions in the country. Scoping will the first major decision for designing the study

9 What TEEB is not It is not a research project no new methods developed What TEEB has aimed for Synthesis of existing knowledge and experience on economics of ecosystems & biodiversity Open architecture more than 500 contributors Prepared for different users in public politics and business Active and worldwide dissemination Awareness raising and mainstreaming 9

10 TEEB: an overview TEEB for Water & Wetlands Uptake in international policy Uptake in business

11 Core Team Case contributions Reviewers Discussions at Rio+20, Ramsar COP11, CBD COP-11

12 Sources: de Groot et al 2012 building on TEEB 2010 The evidence base: range of values of ecosystem services Values of both coastal and inland wetland ecosystem services are typically higher than for other ecosystem types

13 Evidence base - Assessing values and actions Assessing the value of working with natural capital has helped determine where ecosystems can provide goods and services at lower cost than by man-made technological alternatives and where they can lead to significant savings USA-NY: Catskills-Delaware watershed for NY: PES/working with nature saves money (~5US$bn) New Zealand: Te Papanui Park - water supply to hydropower, Dunedin city, farmers (~$136m) Mexico: PSAH to forest owners, aquifer recharge, water quality, deforestation, poverty (~US$303m) France : Priv. Sector: Vittel (Mineral water) PES et al for water quality Venezuela: PA helps avoid potential replacement costs of hydro dams (~US$90-$134m over 30yr) Vietnam restoring/investing in Mangroves - cheaper than dyke maintenance (~US$: 1m to 7m/yr) South Africa: WfW public PES to address IAS, avoids costs and provides jobs (~20,000; 52% ) Critical to assess where working with nature saves money for public (city, region, national), private sector, communities and citizens & who can make it happen Sources: various. Mainly in TEEB for National and International Policy Makers, TEEB for local and regional policy and TEEB cases

14 The big elephant in the room is that we don t have a partnership with nature Y. Kakabadse, WWW 2013

15 UNEP Green Economy Report (2011) Investing in natural capital

16 Business: Identify impacts and dependencies, risks and opportunities, and EP&Ls Global: Strategic Plan Biodiversity & integration in MEAs National: Integration of values into decision making, strategies and make use of NBSAPs Local: Assess interlinks : wetlands, communities, man-made infrastructures and the economy Site managers: Develop site management plans to ensure wise use of wetlands, including sustained provision of ecosystem services Academia: Contribute to fill the knowledge gaps Development cooperation community: integrate appreciation of multiple benefits and potential cost savings into dev co-op objectives and implementation on the ground NGOs: support wetland mang t via funding & expertise, inc. volunteers

17 Evidence based do we have what we need?

18 SEEA (System of Environmental-Economic Accounting): What is available in 2013 SEEA Part 1, Central Framework : the statistical standard approved by UN Statistical Commission in 2012 (assets and supply & use, SNA satellite account) SEEA Water: Interim standard 2007 SEEA Part 2: The experimental ecosystem accounts 2013 Adapted from Jean-Louis Weber, 2013

19 TEEB: an overview TEEB for Water & Wetlands Uptake in international policy Uptake in business

20 Explicit references to TEEB in MEAs CBD Decision IX/6. Incentive measures (Article 11) Decision IX/11. Review of implementation of Articles 20 and 21 Decision X/2 on the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity Decision X/21 on Business Engagement Decision X/44 on Incentive Measures Decision XI/7 on Business and biodiversity Decision XI/8. Engagement of other stakeholders, major groups and subnational authorities Decision XI/15. Review of the programme of work on island biodiversity Decision XI/23. Biological diversity of inland water ecosystems Decision XI/30. Incentive measures Ramsar Resolution X.12 on Principles for partnerships between the Ramsar Convention and the business sector Resolution XI.17 on Future implementation of scientific and technical aspects of the Convention for CITES COP-15 (2010) CMS COP-10 (2011)

21 Draft IPBES Work Programme (comments by 28 July 2013)

22 Deliverable 2(a): Guide for the development and endorsement of regional and sub regional deliverables, assessments and capacities Timeframe: Guide developed in 2014 Rationale: IPBES will conduct a range of regional and sub-regional assessments and will catalyze, but not fund, national assessments. There is a growing range of regional, sub-regional, national and subnational assessments (often referred to as sub-global assessments), building on work under way in follow-up to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (including the SGA Network) and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative, and also on other assessment work. Sub-global assessments have the potential to deliver meaningful results for policymakers at the scale at which they are set, but can also make a valuable input to global and regional assessments. Emph added

23 Deliverable 3(e): Methodological fast-track assessment on values, valuation and accounting of biodiversity and ecosystem services Timeframe: available by March Rationale: ( ) Understanding and assessing the multiple values of biodiversity and ecosystem services is fundamental in order to inform on decision makers on motivations and trade-offs related to different policy option. Various aspects of this issue have been addressed by a range of initiatives such as TEEB, SEEA and WAVES, and others looking at broad approaches to biodiversity values. An assessment dedicated to synthesizing and further developing different approaches to valuation and accounting for biodiversity and ecosystem services would add greatly to progress on implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity , and build capacity for national initiatives, and IPBES regional and global assessments. Emph added

24 TEEB: an overview TEEB for Water & Wetlands Uptake in international policy Uptake in business

25 Uptake in business PUMA EP&L, 2011 WBCSD, 2011

26 WBCSD Guide to water valuation WBCSD, 4 September 2013 Businesses need to start tackling the issue of accounting for the real value of the water they are using and do it now, before it is too late (Peter Bakker)

27 Take home messages* 1. TEEB is more than economic valuation: Economics is about the relationship between humans and ecosystem services, choices, public goods, trade-offs Complementary argument: Economic argument should complement not replace other arguments. 2. TEEB is an instrument rather than a goal: it can help address policy and management concerns 3. TEEB is not (just) a study but a process: Valuation as conversation Kai Chan, Univ British Colombia Dialogue in society to decide the kind of life we want to live: Globally, nationally, regionally, locally * Messages from Vilm workshop (May 2013, organized by BfN, UFZ, UNEP TEEB Office)

28 TEEBweb.org

29 References

30 Implementation Guides for Aichi Targets 2, 3 and 11: a TEEB perspective (2012)

31 Guidance Manual for TEEB Country Studies (2013)

32 TEEBweb.org

33 Acknowledgement This document draws on previously prepared material, including Heidi Wittmer et al. 2012; Heidi Wittmer 2013; Jean-Louis Weber 2013; Patrick ten Brink 2013.