Contribution 9

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International Payments for Ecosystem Services A
Publication Review Meeting

• Contribution 9
• Institutional mechanism matching demand and
  supply sides
• Jorge Gutiérrez
• University of Heidelberg, Germany

August 24, 2014
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Contents

• Problems associated to supply and demand of ES
• Institutions
• - Property rights and land tenure
• - Legal systems and implementing institutions
• - Monitoring and transaction costs
• The roles of local, national international
  institutions
• Limits to measuring biodiversity

Jorge Gutierrez, University of Heidelberg



August 24, 2014
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Problems associated to demand and supply of ES

• Failures in international (institutions, law
  market) . Not all global benefits that
  biodiversity provides are while making decisions
  on natural resources use.
• Biodiversity loss is linked to land uses change
  at local level.
• Immediate benefits from ecosystem conversion are
  higher than long-term benefits derived from
  biodiversity conversion.

Jorge Gutierrez, University of Heidelberg



August 24, 2014
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Demand and supply of environmental services
Jorge Gutierrez, University of Heidelberg



August 24, 2014
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Demand and supply of environmental services
Jorge Gutierrez, University of Heidelberg



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PES and Scale

• Local
• - local communities, NGOs
• - land tenure arrangements, property rights
• National
• - governments, watersheds
• Regional
• - multilateral cooperation, ecoregions
• International
• - international organizations, financing
  mechanism

Jorge Gutierrez, University of Heidelberg



August 24, 2014
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Roles of national and international institutions

• Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)
• - UNFCCC
• - IPCC
• Cooperation
• - legal systems and implementing institutions
• - Monitoring and transaction costs
• The roles of local, national international
  institutions

Jorge Gutierrez, University of Heidelberg



August 24, 2014
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Limits to measuring biodiversity

• Complexity and uncertainty
• - Economical valuation
• - Local communities
• Scale
• - Direct values biological resources
• - Indirect values resilience
• The roles of international institutions
• - GEF
• Incentives

Jorge Gutierrez, University of Heidelberg



August 24, 2014
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Summary

• Issues of legal frameworks and implementing
  institutions can be very country-specific and
  will need close attention when implementing
  projects at the international level
• For future efforts to be successful, it is
  important to explore in what way and to what
  extent international systems of payments for and
  trading of ecosystem services (as exists for
  carbon under the Kyoto Protocol) are a sensible
  approach.
• For biodiversity services especially, local
  adaptation within any international framework of
  coordination may be very important. In general,
  international efforts should aim at creating
  synergies and increasing impact while taking
  local needs into account

Jorge Gutierrez, University of Heidelberg



August 24, 2014
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• End of slide show
• Thank you!

Jorge Gutierrez, University of Heidelberg



August 24, 2014