GEF Investments on Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity study (TEEB) and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provide a comprehensive and useful framework to understand human dependence on ecosystem services and how best to protect these services in perpetuity. In these three authoritative studies, payment for ecosystem services (PES) is listed as one of the mechanisms that should allow societies to pay for the maintenance of these services. Ecosystem services are receiving increased attention in the context of human development through The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study (TEEB). This is an international initiative designed to call attention to the global economic benefits of biodiversity, and the growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. In TEEB s Report for Policymakers, PES schemes are listed as potentially useful mechanisms to compensate those who maintain the flow of ecosystem services. The study emphasizes that PES schemes offer considerable potential to raise new funds for biodiversity or to use existing funding more efficiently, and that both the public and private sectors can play a role in establishing PES in different contexts.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Global Environment Facility
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014-10
Subjects:	ABS, AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL SPECIES, ATLANTIC FOREST, ATLANTIC FORESTS, BASIN, BENEFITS OF BIODIVERSITY, BIODIVERSITY, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, BIODIVERSITY CONSIDERATIONS, BIODIVERSITY LOSS, BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION, BIODIVERSITY STRATEGY, BIODIVERSITY VALUE, BIOLOGICAL CORRIDOR, BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES, BUFFER ZONES, BUILDING MATERIALS, CARBON, CARBON CREDITS, CARBON EMISSIONS, CARBON MARKET, CARBON MARKETS, CARBON SEQUESTRATION, CARBON STOCK, CARBON STOCK CHANGES, CARBON STORAGE, CATTLE, CHEMICALS, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, CO, COAST, COASTAL CONSERVATION, CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, CONSERVATION EFFORTS, CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY, CORAL REEF, CORAL REEF RESILIENCE, CROPS, DECISION MAKING, DEFORESTATION, DESERTIFICATION, ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS, ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, ECONOMIC BENEFITS, ECONOMIC INCENTIVES, ECONOMIC POLICIES, ECONOMIC VALUATION, ECONOMIC VALUATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, ECONOMICS, ECONOMIES OF SCALE, ECOSYSTEM, ECOSYSTEM APPROACH, ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT, ECOSYSTEM CONCEPT, ECOSYSTEM DEGRADATION, ECOSYSTEM GOODS, ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT, ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION, ECOSYSTEM SERVICE, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, ECOSYSTEMS, EMISSIONS, EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION, ENVIRONMENTAL, ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS, ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE, ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, ENVIRONMENTS, FINANCIAL RESOURCES, FISHERIES, FOOD SECURITY, FOREST CARBON, FOREST CONSERVATION, FOREST COVER, FOREST DEGRADATION, FOREST ECOSYSTEM, FOREST MANAGEMENT, FOREST OWNERS, FOREST PROJECTS, FOREST PROTECTION, FOREST RESOURCES, FOREST STEWARDSHIP, FORESTRY, FORESTRY RESEARCH, FORESTS, FRESHWATER, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, GENETIC RESOURCES, GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS, GHG, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS, GRASSLANDS, GREENHOUSE, GREENHOUSE GAS, HABITAT, HIGHLANDS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH, IPCC, LAKE, LAKES, LAND DEGRADATION, LAND MANAGEMENT, LAND MANAGERS, LAND USE, LAND USERS, LAND-USE, LANDSCAPE, LANDSCAPE LEVEL, LANDSCAPES, LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM, LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, LIVELIHOODS, MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, MARINE HABITATS, MONTANE FORESTS, MOUNTAINS, NATURAL ECOSYSTEM, NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS, NATURAL FORESTS, NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES, NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, NATURE, NATURE RESERVE, NUTRIENT CYCLES, OZONE, OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES, PLANTATIONS, PP, PRODUCERS, PROTECTION, PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY, RAIN, REDUCING EMISSIONS, REFORESTATION, REPLENISHMENT, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, RESOURCE USE, RIPARIAN FOREST RESTORATION, RIPARIAN FORESTS, RIVER, RIVER BASINS, SEDIMENTATION, SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SPECIES, STUDY AREA, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES, SUSTAINABLE FOREST, SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT, SUSTAINABLE LAND, SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT, SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT, SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION, SUSTAINABLE USE, SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY, TEMPERATE FORESTS, TIMBER, TRANSACTION COSTS, TROPICAL LOWLAND, TROPICAL MOUNTAINS, TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS, TROPICAL RAINFORESTS, TROPICAL SAVANNAS, UNEP, UPLANDS, WATERSHED, WATERSHED APPROACH, WATERSHED MANAGEMENT, WATERSHED PROTECTION, WATERSHEDS, WETLANDS, WILLINGNESS TO PAY,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/20279243/gef-investments-payment-ecosystem-services-schemes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20681
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