Description: GEF Investments on Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes

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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 huma...

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Main Author:	Global Environment Facility
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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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Summary:	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.