Payment for Ecosystem Services

Event on Developing International Payments for Ecosystem Services (IPES): Avoided Deforestation (Paris, 11 July 2007)

• CIRAD - Is “avoided deforestation” scheme workable as an International PES? (Read the presentation)
• UNEP - Seeing REDD: The Opportunity for a Climate-Conservation Double Dividend Through Avoided Deforestation (see the presentation)
• Remarks by the CBD Secretariat (see the presentation)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• Its economics program works on international payments for ecosystem services, Go to the website
• Developing International Payments for Ecosystem Services (IPES) – Greening the World Economy, a joint IUCN-UNEP initiative (Read the brochure)

World Bank – Payments for Environmental Services

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

• The State of Food and Agriculture 2007 – Paying Farmers for Environmental Services, featuring examples including Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Philippines, South Africa, USA, available at: http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1200e/a1200e00.htm or read the report
• Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission, Payment for Environmental Services, Secretariat Note APFC/2006/6, Twenty-First Session, Dehradun, India, 17-21 April 2006. Read the note
• Regional Forum for Payment Schemes for Environmental Services in Watersheds, June 2003, Arequipa, Peru. Read the report or visit the website: http://www.rlc.fao.org/prior/recnat/foro.htm (in Spanish), featuring experiences of Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru.

International Institute for Environment and Development (website)

Poverty and Environment Partnership (PEP) network (website)

World Wildlife Fund Macroeconomics: Payment for Ecosystem Services Program (website)

• February 2007 Latin American workshop on WWF payment for environmental services experiences and projects, Read the proceedings
• Private Sector - NGO Forum to Promote Ecosystem Services and Payments for Ecosystem Services, 13-14 November 2006 in Vienna, Austria, Read the proceedings
• From good-will to payments for environmental services - A survey of financing alternatives for sustainable natural resource management, December 2003, Read the paper
• Ecosystem Services and Payments for Ecosystem Services: Why should businesses care?, Read the brochure

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Payment for Ecosystem Service (website)

• Bellagio Workshop on Payments for Watershed Services, 12-17 March 2007, go to the website
• Four projects:
  • Uncovering the scope for environmental service payments in the conservation of the North Andean Corridor;
  • Making Nature count: enhancing payments for environmental service initiatives in Ecuador and Colombia;
  • Stakeholders and biodiversity at the local level: building on opportunities in Bolivia and Vietnam;
  • Carbon sequestration and sustainable livelihoods

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) (website)

• Rewarding the Upland Poor in Asia for Environmental Services They Provide – RUPES Program, go to the website
• Asia regional workshop on compensation for ecosystem services: a component of the global scoping study on compensation of ecosystem service, 2006, India, Read the report

The Katoomba’s Group (website)

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) (website)

• 2004 study on Exploring the Links: Human Well-being, Poverty and Ecosystem Services, read the report
• 2006 study on Markets for Ecosystem Services: A Potential Tool for Multilateral Environmental Agreements, read the report

World Resources Institute (website)