World Bank Biodiversity Overview

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World Bank Biodiversity Overview Strategic
Directions

• Dr Kathy MacKinnon
• Lead Biodiversity Specialist
• Environment Department
• The World Bank
• May 2005

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World Bank Environment Strategy

• Three Objectives
• Improve the quality of life by
• Enhancing livelihoods,
• Reducing environmental health risks, and
• Reducing vulnerability to environmental hazards
• Improve the quality of growth by
• Supporting policy, regulations, and institutions
  for sustainable environmental management, and
• Supporting sustainable private sector development
• Protect the quality of local global commons by
  
• Finding equitable solutions to global
  environmental challenges

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WB Environment Strategy Environment and the MDGs
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Bank Biodiversity Portfolio 1988-2004

• More than 426 projects, worth 4.7 billion
• WB loans, GEF, RFTF and cofunding
• Conservation and sustainable use
• 200 Protected Area projects (94 countries)
• Biodiversity in agricultural production
  landscapes, including marine freshwater
  ecosystems

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Strategic Partnerships for Biodiversity

• Global partnerships (GEF, CBD and other
  international agreements), Millennium Ecosystem
  Assessment
• Partnerships with NGOs WWF/World Bank Alliance
  for Forests, Critical Ecosystems Partnership
  Fund, Alliance of Religions and Conservation,
  Global Invasive Species Programme
• Outreach and partnerships with private sector
  CEOs Forum on Forests, World Business Council for
  Sustainable Development, IFC.
• Alignment of BNPP, TFESSD and other trust funds
  with Environment Strategy implementation and
  Biodiversity and Forestry priorities

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Global Forest Alliance

• World Bank and World Wide Fund for Nature
• 50 million hectares of new protected areas
• 50 m ha more effectively managed Pas
• 200 m ha sustainably managed forest
• Achievements
• 28.5 m ha Amazon rainforest (ARPA, Brazil)
• Mobilizing certification for SFM in Vietnam
• Tools for PA management effectiveness

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Bank support 230 PA projects 3.2 billion
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Regional Partnerships
THE BNPP/ MABC Initiative 2001-2004 Components
are provide the glue to the national
conservation efforts
1. MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING TOOLS

• 2. PROMOTION
• /COMMUNICATION
• STRATEGY

3. MAINSTREAMING
4. CAPACITY BUILDING
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Innovative partnerships

• Religions and Biodiversity Conservation
• Working with major religions globally to
  mainstream biodiversity
• Pilot project to incorporate environment in
  Mongolian Buddhist literature for education
• Local Language Field Guides
• More than 60 guides published
• Started East Asia, now global
• Huge demand more than 500 applications

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New Directions

• Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Production
  Landscapes
• Biodiversity-poverty linkages
• Payments for Ecosystem services
• Indigenous peoples issues
• Invasive alien species

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Tourism in Southern Africa

• PAs, wildlife and tourism
• Bush and beach packages
• Mozambique transfrontier and coastal
• Swaziland tourism and biodiversity corridors
• Transfrontier tourist routes

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Coastal fisheries in Indonesia

• COREMAP/Coral reefs
• Small-scale fisheries and community management
• SEMBILANG NP
• Mangrove and fish nurseries
• KOMODO
• Public-private partnerships
• Sharing of benefits

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Benefits to Local Communities

• India Eco-development
• Community committees and user groups
• Indigenous reserves, e.g. Peru, Brazil
• Supplementary livelihoods
• Empowerment

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Payments for Ecosystem Services

• Linking forest protection to water quality
  Running Pure
• Ecomarkets project in Costa Rica
• Integrated Silvopastoral approached to ecosystem
  management
• Guidelines for PES
• Community Development Carbon Fund, BioCarbon Fund

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Invasive Alien Species Constraints to Development

• Reduce crop yields (food security)
• Land degradation
• Ecosystems services, water quality quantity
• Choke irrigation canals
• Block hydroelectric dams
• Reduce lifespan of development investments
• Impact on poorest sections of society

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Global Invasive Species Programme

• GISP mandate from COP6 work program on IAS
• Bank support to GISP secretariat and core
  programs
• GISP partners IUCN, TNC, SANBI, CABI and Working
  for Water
• Capacity building in East Africa
• Poverty linkages costs and opportunities
• Economic toolkits cost effective interventions
• Legal and institutional needs
• www.gisp.org

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Biodiversity at the World Bank

• For more information
• www.worldbank.org/biodiversity