Quito Seminar on Scaling up Biodiversity Finance

Introductory Session

• Presentation of the background and policy context to the seminar including CBD decisions by Ravi Sharma, Principal Officer, CBD Secretariat

Panel on Values of Biological Diversity

• Biodiversity's value: recognising, demonstrating and capturing – Pavan Sukhdev, UNEP-TEEB
• A methodological approach for the implementation of the Rights of Mother Earth – José Gadir Lavadenz, Mother Earth and Water Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cult, Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
• Biodiversity's ecological and resilience value - Thomas Hahn, Stockholm Resilience Centre

What needs to be financed - Assessing financial gaps to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

• Brief overview of current financial flows globally and draft GEF needs assessment - Guenter Mitlacher WWF and member of the CBD Expert Team on GEF Needs Assessment
• The approach for the High level panel assessment on financial flows - Pavan Sukhdev, UNEP-TEEB
• UNDP-EC Global Biodiversity Finance Project - Yves de Soye UNDP

• Case illustrating successful sustainable use (including biodiversity protection) through theestablishment of cooperatives and local markets - and implications on financing needs - André Luiz Rodrigues Gonçalves, Centro Ecológico, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Case from indigenous and local peoples organisation - Taghi Farvar, Indigenous Community Conserved Areas (ICCA) consortium, Iran (forthcoming)
• Estimations of the costs and benefits of the Nagoya protocol - Pierre du Plessis, SADC, Namibia
• Assessment of costs for implementation of Aichi targets to the GEF Needs Assessment by India - Prof. A. Damodaran, The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
• Norwegian follow-up of TEEB and Waves - Tone Solhaug, Ministry of the Environment, Norway

• Can Markets Protect Biodiversity? An Evaluation of Different Financial Mechanisms - Arild Vatn, Norway
• Politics and equity of financing for biodiversity - Chee Yoke Ling representing the South Centre and Third World Network
• Safeguards - Valerie Hickey, The World Bank
• Safeguards - Estebancio Castro Diaz and Maria Yolanda Teran Maigua, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity

Case studies and options for financing

• Introductory remark on PES; Cost Rica Example of Public funded PES - Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, Vice President for Conservation Policy, Conservation International (forthcoming)
• Mexican example of public funded PES - Álvaro Salgado, Mexico case Lichuigiri

• Role of ODA in financing biodiversity and ecosystem services - Bente Herstad, NORAD
• ODA and recent EU initiatives on biodiversity financing from the public and private sectors - Laure Ledoux, EC
• The GEF Replenishment: How does it come about? - Gustavo Fonseca, GEF

• Introductory remarks on national and international fiscal instruments. Nordic model of taxation and delivery of public services/Financial transaction tax (Tobin tax) - Thomas Hahn, Sweden
• Ecuadorian experiences of environmental taxes - Fabián Espinoza, Ministerio del Ambiente en Ecuador, Programa Nacional del Manejo Integral de Desechos Sólidos

• Katia Karousakis
• Japan's best practices and future perspectives on scaling up biodiversity finance - Naohisa Okuda Director, Global Biodiversity Strategy Office, Ministry of Environment, Japan
• Biodiversity Off-sets - Marta Echavarria, Biodiversity Offsets Program
• Traditional green markets with help of certification - Roberto Ugas, Vice President of IFOAM

• Keeping oil in the ground, the example of Yasuni - Daniel Ortega, Director of Environment and Climate Change, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador (English version)
• Keeping oil in the ground, the example of Yasuni - Daniel Ortega, Director of Environment and Climate Change, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador (Spanish version)
• Trust Funds/environmental funds, and the case of Amazon Protected Areas Program - Pedro Leitão, Brazil