- Background and Purposes
A healthy mangrove ecosystem contributes to address multiple social challenges simultaneously, such as climate change, coastal disaster risk and communities’ livelihood enhancement. However, global extent of mangrove forests has drastically declined over the last decades, which caused the reduction of such ecosystem functions/services. Many states are currently accelerating to restore degraded mangrove forests. Private companies also recently have a great interest in conservation and restoration of mangrove ecosystems which store much higher carbon, expecting to purchase carbon credits and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. However, mangrove plantation without considering other ecosystem services would result in antagonistic trade-off among the services.
In order to restore a mangrove ecosystem ensuring synergies with its multiple services, we should apply an integrated ecosystem management, of which key elements are stakeholder participation, scientific monitoring on the status of and threats to the ecosystem, and adaptive management based on such scientific monitoring and consultation among stakeholders. Mangrove conservation and restoration implemented by such an integrated approach can maximize synergies with climate change control, disaster risk and poverty reduction for coastal communities, its scale-up contributes to achieve the multiple targets of KM-GBF, especially restoration of at least 30% of degraded coastal ecosystem (Target 2), minimizing climate change impacts on biodiversity (Target 8) and enhancement of nature’s contribution to people (Target 11), and also achieve the national commitments on biodiversity (NBSAP) and climate change mitigation and adaptation (NDC) in mangrove inhabiting countries. Aiming at the contribution to such global and national commitments, this side event is to:
- Share mangrove ecosystem conservation and restoration activities by partner country, organizations, private sector and JICA,
- Identify good practices and challenges for ensuring synergies with the multiple ecosystem services, and
- Discuss how we manage mangrove conservation and restoration projects ensuring multiple ecosystem services and contribute to the achievement of relevant national and global goals and targets.
2. Organizers
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Secretariat of Convention on Biological Diversity (S-CBD), Ministry of Environment, Japan (MOE-J), Ministry of Environment and Forestry Indonesia (MOEF-I), Wetlands International, Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center Japan (OECC)
3 Agenda
1) Opening Address
Dr. Joseph Appiott, Programme Officer on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, S-CBD
Ms. Misa Kemmiya, Director General for Sustainability Management, JICA
2) Presentation
Mangrove Conservation Ensuring Its Multiple Ecosystem Services
Dr. Noriaki Sakaguchi, Senior Advisor, Global Environment Department, JICA
Mangrove Conservation Policies in Indonesia
Ms. Nuril Fadzillah, Directorate of Species and Genetic Biodiversity Conservation, D.G. Ecosystem & Natural Resources
Conservation, MOEF-I
Bringing Best Practice Mangrove restoration to Scale
Mr. Han de Groot, CEO, Wetlands International
Mangrove Restoration through Carbon Finance
Mr. Shuji Naito, Senior Associate, Carbon Solution Business Unit, Sumitomo Corporation
Private sector’s mangrove restoration project in the Philippines
Ms. Nene Fukizawa, Researcher, Project Development Department, OECC
3) Panel Discussion
Theme: How do we implement mangrove restoration and conservation in order to maximize multiple benefits/services of
mangrove ecosystems?
- Scientific, economic and social evaluation or monitoring on the ecosystem benefits/services
- Collaboration, knowledge sharing and capacity building among stakeholders
- Development of technical and institutional guidelines for ensuring the multiple ecosystem benefits/services
Panelist
Ms. Nuril Fadzillah,, MOEF-I
Mr. Han de Groot, WI
Mr. Shuji Naito, Sumitomo Corporation
Moderator
Dr. Noriaki Sakaguchi, JICA
4) Closing address
Ministry of the Environment, Japan
