Side Event

Intermediate Results of UNEP's initiative on International Payments for Ecosystem Services

Organizer
United Nations Environment Programme - Economics and Trade Branch

Date and Time
23 May 2008 18:15 - 19:45

Meeting
Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 9)

UNEP intend to hold a side-event roundtable with IUCN, which will consider the options for IPES. The side event will also disseminate and discuss the preliminary findings of UNEP’s forthcoming publication on IPES, which covers the demand for and supply of critical ecosystem services as well as ways of bring the two sides together through international arrangements.