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PES News
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Paying for avoided deforestation in Mato Grosso state, Brazil
“Following particularly the focus of the Stern Report on avoided
deforestation, there is a growing recognition that Reduced Emissions from
Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) have to be part and parcel of our
global efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Correspondingly,
developing countries are also starting to respond with proposals on how REDD
could be put into action in the South.
Jan Börner from the Amazon Initiative and Sven Wunder from CIFOR (both
based in Belém Brazil) have been asked to advise a consortium of Brazilian
NGOs, headed by the Centro de Vida (ICV) in Cuiabá, on how to design a scheme for avoided deforestation and its
compensation in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, in the southern part of
the Amazon. Placed in the heart of the so-called “arc of deforestation”,
Mato Grosso has with around one third of all Brazilian forest clearing in
the past clearly been the “champion of deforestation”, with forest
conversion occurring especially to cattle and soybean. However, the state
also possesses a pro-active civil society, and has recently undertaken
promising reforms in its environmental policies. Over the last couple of
years, these have already contributed to a significant reduction in forest
clearing. The challenge will be to design an incentive system, at the
federal-state and farmer levels, that can further reduce deforestation, and
at the same time link this hoped-for achievement to global carbon markets
willing to help financing and rewarding those reductions.
For more information, please contact Jan Börner [j.borner@cgiar.org]
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PAYMENTS for WATERSHED SERVICES: Building on pilot experiences to mainstream a tool for sustainable conservation and development
25 participants from both developing and developed countries met during a
week (12-17 March 2007) at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio (Northern Italy)
to discuss watershed protection schemes of the payments for environmental
services (PES) type. The workshop was organized jointly by Fundación Natura
Bolivia, CIFOR, IIED and EcoFund Ecuador. The group of participants included a
rich blend of PES practitioners, analysts, financial sector and multilateral
specialists, as well as NGO, government and grassroot organization
representatives. In particular, there was an ample particiption of people based
in Latin America, indicating the pioneer role this region has had in watershed
PES development: Mexico (3), Costa Rica (2), Bolivia (2), Ecuador (2), and
Brazil (1). The main purpose was to discuss eight different topics regarded as
"hot issues" in the watershed PES debate: role of legal framework, research
needs prior to implementation, 'bundling' of services, how to stimulate users'
willingness to pay, poverty aspects, contract design, transaction costs, and
upscaling. Also, some elements for a decision-support system of when to use PES
and when not were developed. For each of these themes, a small discussion paper
had been prepared in advance. After discussing these in plenary and in focus
groups, two-page synthesis papers were produced for each, which after further
revisions will be joined in a single executive-style paper.
This paper will be
widely distributed, including by the Katoomba Group and on the CIFOR PES webpage
(http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/pes/_ref/home/index.htm). CIFOR´s Sven Wunder
(s.wunder@cgiar.org) co-organized
the workshop, while Peter Frost (p.frost@cgiar.org) was rapporteur,
and will also act as the main writer of the synthesis paper.
more
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Preinscripción al Taller PSA Cuenca
“El Rol de Pagos por Servicios Ambientales en la Conservación de Bosque Nublado y Páramo”
9 de Noviembre de 2006, Hotel Crespo, Calle Larga, Cuenca
8:30 AM – 6:20 PM
With several other partners, CIFOR is co-organizing and
co-sponsoring the NGO Fundación Cordillera Tropical's workshop: "The role of
payments for environmental services in the conservation of cloud forest and páramo", 9-10 Nov. 2006, Hotel Crespo, Calle Larga, Cuenca (Ecuador). One
purpose of the workshop is to increase knowledge about PES among Ecuadorian
stakeholders, especially in the Southern highlands region. A second purpose
is to discuss a tangible proposal for setting up a PES scheme in the Paute
watershed that is vital for hydroelectric power generation. For CIFOR, the
workshop anticipates various activities under the upcoming project "Making
Nature count" (see PES projects). For more information, see the workshop
programme (in Spanish) more
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ZEF-CIFOR workshop: Payments for environmental services in developed and
developing countries
The objective of the case studies of payments for environmental services (PES)
presented in this workshop is to learn from different existing schemes: what
worked and what did not, in terms of reaching specific objectives? What
conclusions on optimal scheme design under different settings can be drawn? On
an environment-development scale, the primary focus of this workshop is the
efficiency of PES instruments in reaching environmental objectives. The
secondary focus is on the human welfare aspects of PES, as an instrument to
reach the environmental objectives and as an independent side-objective of its
own. more
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