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TEEB as a tool for

biodiversity mainstreaming

Nick Bertrand

United Nations Environment Programme

Investing in peatlands: Partnerships for a new peatland era

10-12 September 2013

York, UK

Water Cooperation – building partnerships

• TEEB: an overview

• TEEB for Water & Wetlands

• Uptake in international policy

• Uptake in business

• the economic invisibility of nature is a problem

• addressing losses requires knowledge from many disciplines (ecology, economics, policy,…) to be synthesized, integrated and acted upon

• different decision-making groups need different types of information and guidance

• successes need be understood, broadcast replicated and scaled…

Why TEEB? Because…

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• Norwegian expert

commission on

values of ecosystem

services

29 August 2013

1. Recognizing value: a feature of all human

societies and communities

2. Demonstrating value: in economic terms, to

support decision making

3. Capturing value: introduce mechanisms that

incorporate the values of ecosystems into

decision making

TEEB tiered approach

What is TEEB and how does it

integrate into the policy landscape?

Understanding of the economic

• significance

• distortions and incentives

• options (but also poverty reduction)

• adequate incentives for provisioning of public goods, etc.......

It is usually not feasible and probably not even desirable to address all

issues, all ecosystem services and all regions in the country. Scoping

will the first major decision for designing the study

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What TEEB is not…

• It is not a research project

• no new methods developed

What TEEB has aimed for…

• Synthesis of existing knowledge and experience on economics of

ecosystems & biodiversity

• “Open architecture” – more than 500 contributors

• Prepared for different users in public politics and business

• Active and worldwide dissemination

• Awareness raising and mainstreaming





Core Team

Case contributions

Reviewers

Discussions at Rio+20, Ramsar

COP11, CBD COP-11

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The evidence base: range of values of ecosystem services

Assessing the value of working with natural capital has helped determine where

ecosystems can provide goods and services at lower cost than by man-made

technological alternatives and where they can lead to significant savings

• USA-NY: Catskills-Delaware watershed for NY: PES/working with nature saves money (~5US$bn)

• New Zealand: Te Papanui Park - water supply to hydropower, Dunedin city, farmers (~$136m)

• Mexico: PSAH to forest owners, aquifer recharge, water quality, deforestation, poverty (~US$303m)

• France : Priv. Sector: Vittel (Mineral water) PES et al for water quality

• Venezuela: PA helps avoid potential replacement costs of hydro dams (~US$90-$134m over 30yr)

• Vietnam restoring/investing in Mangroves - cheaper than dyke maintenance (~US$: 1m to 7m/yr)

• South Africa: WfW public PES to address IAS, avoids costs and provides jobs (~20,000; 52%♀)

Sources: various. Mainly in TEEB for National and International Policy Makers, TEEB for local and regional policy and TEEB cases

Critical to assess where working with nature saves money for public (city, region,

national), private sector, communities and citizens & who can make it happen

Evidence base - Assessing values and actions

• “The big elephant

in the room is that

we don’t have a

partnership with

nature”

Y. Kakabadse, WWW 2013

UNEP Green Economy Report (2011)

Investing in natural capital

Global: Strategic Plan Biodiversity 2011-2020 & integration in MEAs

National: Integration of values into decision making, strategies and make use of NBSAPs

Local: Assess interlinks : wetlands, communities, man-made infrastructures and the economy

Site managers: Develop site management plans to ensure wise use of wetlands, including sustained provision of ecosystem services

Academia: Contribute to fill the knowledge gaps

Development cooperation community: integrate appreciation of multiple benefits and potential cost savings into dev co-op objectives and implementation on the ground

NGOs: support wetland mang’t via funding & expertise, inc. volunteers

Business: Identify impacts and dependencies, risks and opportunities , and EP&Ls

• Evidence

based – do

we have what

we need?

SEEA (System of Environmental-Economic

Accounting): What is available in 2013

SEEA Part 1, “Central

Framework”:

the statistical

standard approved

by UN Statistical

Commission in 2012

(assets and supply

& use, SNA satellite

account)

SEEA Water:

“Interim standard”

2007

SEEA Part 2:

The experimental

ecosystem accounts

2013

Adapted from Jean-Louis Weber, 2013





• CBD – Decision IX/6. Incentive measures (Article 11)

– Decision IX/11. Review of implementation of Articles 20 and 21

– Decision X/2 on the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-20

– Decision X/21 on Business Engagement

– Decision X/44 on Incentive Measures

– Decision XI/7 on Business and biodiversity

– Decision XI/8. Engagement of other stakeholders, major groups and subnational authorities

– Decision XI/15. Review of the programme of work on island biodiversity

– Decision XI/23. Biological diversity of inland water ecosystems

– Decision XI/30. Incentive measures

• Ramsar

• Resolution X.12 on “Principles for partnerships between the Ramsar Convention and the business sector”

• Resolution XI.17 on “Future implementation of scientific and technical aspects of the Convention for

2013-2015”

• CITES COP-15 (2010)

• CMS COP-10 (2011)

Explicit references to TEEB in MEAs…

Draft IPBES

Work

Programme

2014-2018

(comments by

28 July 2013)

Deliverable 2(a): Guide for the development and endorsement of

regional and sub regional deliverables, assessments and

capacities

• Timeframe: Guide developed in 2014

• Rationale: IPBES will conduct a range of regional and sub-regional assessments and will catalyze, but not fund, national assessments.

• There is a growing range of regional, sub-regional, national and sub-national assessments (often referred to as sub-global assessments), building on work under way in follow-up to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (including the SGA Network) and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative, and also on other assessment work.

• Sub-global assessments have the potential to deliver meaningful results for policymakers at the scale at which they are set, but can also make a valuable input to global and regional assessments.

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Deliverable 3(e): Methodological fast-track assessment on values,

valuation and accounting of biodiversity and ecosystem services

• Timeframe: available by March 2015.

• Rationale: (…) Understanding and assessing the multiple values of biodiversity and ecosystem services is fundamental in order to inform on decision makers on motivations and trade-offs related to different policy option.

• Various aspects of this issue have been addressed by a range of initiatives such as TEEB, SEEA and WAVES, and others looking at broad approaches to biodiversity values.

• An assessment dedicated to synthesizing and further developing different approaches to valuation and accounting for biodiversity and ecosystem services would add greatly to progress on implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, and build capacity for national initiatives, and IPBES regional and global assessments.

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Uptake in business…

PUMA EP&L, 2011

WBCSD, 2011

“Businesses need to start

tackling the issue of

accounting for the real

value of the water they

are using—and do it

now, before it is too

late” (Peter Bakker)

WBCSD, 4 September 2013

WBCSD Guide to water valuation

Take home messages*

1. TEEB is more than economic valuation: – Economics is about the relationship between humans and

ecosystem services, choices, public goods, trade-offs

– Complementary argument: Economic argument should complement not replace other arguments.

2. TEEB is an instrument rather than a goal: – it can help address policy and management concerns

3. TEEB is not (just) a study but a process: – “Valuation as conversation” Kai Chan, Univ British Colombia

– Dialogue in society to decide the kind of life we want to live:

Globally, nationally, regionally, locally

* Messages from Vilm workshop (May 2013, organized by BfN, UFZ, UNEP TEEB Office)

TEEBweb.org

• References

Implementation Guides for Aichi Targets

2, 3 and 11: a TEEB perspective (2012)

Guidance Manual for TEEB

Country Studies (2013)

TEEBweb.org

Acknowledgement This document draws on previously prepared material, including Heidi Wittmer et al. 2012;

Heidi Wittmer 2013; Jean-Louis Weber 2013; Patrick ten Brink 2013.

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