2010/6 South East Asia Katoomba Meeting XVII- Taking the Lead: Payments for Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia (Hanoi, Vietnam)
OVERVIEW
Throughout Southeast Asia, there is increasing regional interest in market-based conservation strategies, including payments for ecosystem services (PES). While a number of projects are underway, PES in the Southeast Asia region primarily occurs on an ad hoc basis through small-scale pilot projects. However, information, capacity to design and manage PES deals, and institutions to support on-the-ground implementation are often lacking and have hindered efforts to scale up.
The 2010 South East Asia Katoomba Group meeting included moderated sessions among policy makers, international and regional technical experts, the business community, the environmental community and others from the region and around the globe, discussing the current state of, and potential for, payments for ecosystem markets, challenges, and creative solutions which are pertinent to the Southeast Asia region. This included pioneering initiatives in water, forest-based as well as marine based carbon sequestration and biodiversity markets which, in conjunction with REDD, have the capability to reduce global carbon emissions and help conserve natural ecosystems. Sessions also covered important topics such as benefits sharing and leakage effects.
More than 400 stakeholders from more than 30 countries participated - including more than 200 Vietnamese stakeholders from national and local government, civil society an the private sector - in the event. With coverage from more than 24 local media outlets, the meeting helped raised the public profile of PES in Vietnam.
More information can be found on the Katoomba Group at this link.
SIDE EVENT: Katoomba XVII Workshop - Coastal Management, Mangroves and Carbon Sequestration (June 25-27, 2010, Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam)
KEY DOCUMENTS
Ecosystem Marketplace Insight Booklets - A collection of articles compiled and prepared for the event
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Tools for the Tides: Exploring Coastal and Marine Markets Ecosystem Marketplace, 2010 |
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Beyond Borders: PES and REDD in the ASEAN Region Ecosystem Marketplace, 2010 |
AGENDA
Wednesday, June 23
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8:00—9:00am |
REGISTRATION | |
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9:00—10:00am |
WELCOME & CONFERENCE OPENING REMARKS
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10:00—11:00am |
PRESS CONFERENCE & BREAK | |
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11:00—11:30am |
KEYNOTE INTRODUCTION: CLIMATE AND LANDUSE LOOKING FORWARD
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11:30 –12:30pm |
STATE OF EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL MARKETS
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12:30—1:30pm |
LUNCH | |
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1:30—3:00pm |
FOREST CARBON AND REDD ARCHITECTURE Post Copenhagen is a period of “interim financing” and the challenges of ensuring that investments flow efficiently to produce mechanisms for carbon emissions reductions, accountability, and equitable benefits distributions
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3:00—3:30pm |
BREAK | |
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3:30—4:00pm |
KEY NOTE SPEECHES: VOICES FROM THE MARKETS Enabling policy environments which encourage public-private investment partnerships, catalyzing flows of private capital into local climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives Moderator: Michael Jenkins, Forest Trends
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4:00—4:30pm |
COFFEE AND TEA BREAK | |
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4:30—5:30pm |
PROJECTS, PRODUCTS AND MEASUREMENT REPORTING AND VERIFICATION (MRV) STRATEGIES Identifying key roadblocks, priority action areas and research/capacity building needs, and generating a provisional road-map to measuring carbon
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5:30—6:30pm |
OPEN FORUM | |
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6:30—9:00pm |
DINNER AND COCKTAIL RECEPTION | |
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7:15—9:00pm |
OPTIONAL SIDE PANEL AND INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION:DEMYSTIFYING THE VERIFICATION PROCESS The panelists, who each have experience with a different aspect of forest carbon project validation or verification, will share their perspectives on standards, preparing for an audit, the audit process and how to share the results of your verification/validation. The session aims to create a dialogue for maximal exchange. Moderator: Adam Gibbon, Rainforest Alliance
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Thursday, June 24 |
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8:45—9:00am |
WELCOME & RECAP ON DAY 1 Kerstin Canby, Forest Trade and Finance, Forest Trends |
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9:00—10:30am |
THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE Vietnam’s Pilot Policy for Forest Ecosystem Services (PFES): Government Perspective
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10:30—11:00am |
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11:00—12:00pm |
PAYMENTS FOR WATERSHED ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Understanding how to maximize ability of market mechanisms to increase watershed services while also providing incentives for improved land use in catchment areas
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12:00—1:00pm |
LUNCH | |
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1:00—2:00pm |
BIODIVERSITY MARKETS AND MARKET-LIKE INSTRUMENTS How to get beyond public finance for biodiversity conservation and how markets can be used to achieve more and better cost effective conservation outcomes from infrastructure development
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2:00—3:30pm |
COASTAL AND MARINE MARKETS (INCLUDING MANGROVE ECOSYSTEMS) Payments for ecosystem services and other innovative mechanisms for marine and coastal conservation
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3:30—4:00pm |
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4:00—5:00pm |
BENEFITS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS Meeting expectations for equity, transparency, additionality and performance while managing PES revenues in an effective and efficient manner
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5:00—6:00pm |
COMBINING MULTIPLE PES MARKETS: STACKING AND BUNDLING Designing markets which integrate ecological values while also allowing landholders to tap multiple sources of potential revenue
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6:00—6:30pm |
CLOSING | |
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6:30—7:30pm |
DINNER | |
CONTRIBUTORS
Co-hosts:
Partners involved in producing this event included:
