Download or read book Paying for Biodiversity Enhancing the Cost Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services Romanian version written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paying for Biodiversity Enhancing the Cost Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services Romanian Version written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paying for Biodiversity Enhancing the Cost Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services Bulgarian version written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Payments for Ecosystem Services written by Thomas Greiber and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Payment for and Management of Ecosystem Services written by Marianne Zandersen and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons from Payments for Ecosystem Services for REDD Benefit Sharing Mechanisms written by Lasse Loft and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where benefits and costs accrue at different scales, financial intermediaries are needed to facilitate relations between global-scale buyers and local-scale providers of carbon sequestration and storage. These intermediaries can help to collect and distribute payments and to promote the scheme to potential beneficiaries. The benefits distributed should compensate for the transaction, opportunity and implementation costs incurred by stakeholders for providing ecosystem services. Therefore, calculating the costs and understanding who incurs them are essential for benefit sharing. Targeting benefits according to a set of criteria that match the objectives of the specific mechanism increases the mechanism’s efficiency. As the level of performance-based payments may not be able to compete with the opportunity costs of highly profitable land uses, performance-related benefit-sharing mechanisms should be focused on areas with moderate opportunity costs. Benefits should be divided into upfront payments to cover startup costs and to give an initial incentive for participation, and payments upon delivery of ecosystem services to ensure adherence to conditionality.
Download or read book Giving Credit where Credit is Due written by Gina L. LaRocco and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation of biodiversity serves a number of human needs, including maintenance of ecosystem services that are critical to the sustainability of all life. Effective biodiversity conservation will require better landowner incentives for restoration and protection of ecosystems. Many services produced from healthy, functioning landscapes are not well recognized in current conservation incentive structures, including sequestering or storing carbon in trees and soil, providing fish and wildlife habitat, filtering water, and reducing damages from natural disasters. Most existing incentive programs pay landowners to protect and restore a specific service rather than the suite of services produced from well-functioning ecosystems. Various incentive programs need to be better integrated or new programs need to be developed that value a greater proportion of the ecological benefits that flow from ecosystems. One promising option is to allow landowners to bundle or stack payments for ecosystem services. This option, however, also presents issues that need to be addressed to ensure ecological goals and economic efficiency are achieved. Current efforts underway address some of these issues. Specifically, collaborative efforts among public and private entities in the Pacific Northwest and Chesapeake Bay region are developing accounting tools to measure ecosystem services and test policies for bundling services and stacking payments on the ground. The U.S. government has also made a commitment to ensure coordination and integration of ecosystem market development by creating a dedicated agency under the U.S. Department of Agriculture called the Office of Environmental Markets.
Download or read book Intermediaries Within the Governance Structures of Payments for Ecosystem Services written by Sarah Schomers and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paying for Biodiversity Enhancing the Cost Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the literature concerning effective Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programmes and on more than 30 case studies, this book aims to identify good practice in the design and implementation of PES programmes so as to enhance their environmental and cost effectiveness.
Download or read book How Not to Pay The Impact of Conditionality Design on the Cost Effectiveness of Payments for Avoided Deforestation written by Tim Reutemann and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) can use many design features. We investigate the impact of payment conditionality types, i.e. different specifications when to pay and when not to pay, for PES on deforestation and agricultural production in a lab-in-the-field experiment. Our experiment also tests variations in contract period and payment volatility. We designed a highly visual simulation game to characterize the decision situation of a cattle rancher in Brazil. The player can expand extensive pasture by deforestation or intensify existing pasture. The model includes both a land and a capital constraint. We applied the game in an economic, framed lab-in-the-field experiment in Tocantins, Brazil. Payments conditional on forest carbon stock lead to slow, but steady deforestation, while payments conditional on forest carbon stock-change suppressed deforestation more strongly. But payments conditional on stock increase cattle production while payments conditional on stock-change have no effect on production. Thus, depending on the level of leakage, either type of conditionality can be more cost-effective in reducing global carbon emissions. Contracts with limited periods lead to strong deforestation after the end of the payment period. Payment volatility had no significant effect.
Download or read book GEF Investments on Payments for Ecosystem Services Schemes written by Global Environment Facility and published by . This book was released on 2014-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has engaged in pioneering development of mechanisms that reward good stewardship of natural resources, including the structuring of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes. For the GEF, the concept of PES includes a variety of arrangements through which the beneficiaries of ecosystem services compensate those providing the services. This publication summarizes the investments of GEF in PES from a variety of institutional, thematic and geographic perspectives. The publication also highlights some of the trends and opportunities for the establishment of PES schemes to generate global environmental benefits. Investments have ranged from global projects aiming at building the human and institutional capacity necessary to establish PES schemes, to stand-alone agreements between buyers and sellers in watersheds of high biodiversity value.
Download or read book Money Not to Burn written by B. Kelsey Jack and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particulate matter significantly reduces life expectancy in India. We use a randomized controlled trial in the Indian state of Punjab to evaluate the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (also known as payments for ecosystem services, or PES) in reducing crop residue burning, which is a major contributor to the region's poor air quality. Credit constraints and distrust may make farmers less likely to comply with standard PES contracts, which only pay the participant after verification of compliance. We randomize paying a portion of the money upfront and unconditionally. Despite receiving a lower reward for compliance, farmers offered partial upfront payment are 8-12 percentage points more likely to comply than are farmers offered the standard contract. Burning measures derived from satellite imagery indicate that PES with upfront payments significantly reduced burning, while standard PES payments were inframarginal. We also show that PES with an upfront component is a cost-effective way to improve India's air quality.
Download or read book A Quantitative Analysis of Effectiveness Efficiency and Equity of Payment for Ecosystem Services in a User financed and a Government financed Program written by Tanya Williams and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Payment for Ecosystems Services (PES) programs which are considered as incentivized mechanisms has been implemented in Latin America as a strategy to reduce deforestation by rewarding landowners (sellers) to protect forests and to provide ecosystem services to ecosystem users/beneficiaries (buyers). Two common management structures for PES programs have been implemented in Latin America: Government-financed and User-financed. User-financed PES programs are promoted as being more environmentally effective and cost-effective compared with Government-financed programs. Government-financed PES programs are perceived as less effective than User-financed PES due to the inclusion of equity as a critical policy outcome of PES. In this thesis, an analysis is conducted of the program structure of two PES programs in the program’s ability to support environmental effectiveness, equity, and cost-effectiveness. Two case studies were used in the analysis: the Costa Rica National PES Program, a Government-financed program and the Los Negros Valley, Bolivia Reciprocal Watershed Agreements (RWA), a User-financed Program. This thesis also investigates the role of the type PES program structure in the inclusion of equity in PES design and implementation. The analysis indicated that the Government-financed PES program was better structure to support higher indicators of environmental effectiveness, equity and cost-effectiveness. The findings of the study showed that the program structure of PES is likely to influence whether equity is included in the design of the PES. A Government-financed PES is more likely to include equity as a policy outcome."--Abstract.
Download or read book Paying for Biodiversity written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by Organization for Economic Co-Operation & Development. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the literature concerning effective Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programmes and on more than 30 case studies, this book aims to identify good practice in the design and implementation of PES programmes so as to enhance their environmental and cost effectiveness.
Download or read book Biodiversity Finance and the Economic and Business Case for Action written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report sets the economic and business case for urgent and ambitious action on biodiversity. It presents a preliminary assessment of current biodiversity-related finance flows, and discusses the key data and indicator gaps that need to be addressed to underpin effective monitoring of both the pressures on biodiversity and the actions (i.e. responses) being implemented. The report concludes with ten priority areas where G7 and other countries can prioritise their efforts.
Download or read book Scaling up Finance Mechanisms for Biodiversity written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines six mechanisms that can be used to scale-up financing for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use and to help meet the 2011-20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
Download or read book Ecosystem Services written by Jetske A. Bouma and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to provide a framework for translating concepts into ecosystem-related decision making and practice.
