How does CI approach payment for ecosystem services programs?

1. Towards More Sustainable and Market-based Payment for Ecosystem ServicesA Pilot Project in Lijiang, ChinaLu Zhi

2. How does CI approach payment for ecosystem services programs? • Target areas for payment for ecosystem services and determine opportunity costs • Integrate ecological processes and development needs into payment mechanism design across priority landscapes • Replicate and scale up successful models, and share new tools and results with key decision-makers • Foster enabling conditions: provide data on service flows, value of services, policy frameworks, governance, market development, and structure implementing entity

3. BUNDLED ES: percent overlap of three services Target areas: Bundling services in Madagascar • Each individual ES layer was: • Z-normalized (mean=0 and standard deviation=1) • Combined using equal weights • Scaled between 0 and 1

4. BIODIVERSITY: number of mammals, birds & amphibians weighted by threat status WATER: water quality weighted by human population, rice & mangroves WATER: water quality weighted by human population, rice & mangroves BUNDLED ES: percent overlap of three services HIGH OPPORTUNITY COSTS CARBON: above- and below-ground biomass ADDITIONALITY: Bundled ES * Probability of deforestation TARGETED PAYMENTS FOR ES PROBABILITY OF DEFORESTATION Target areas: Opportunity costs in Madagascar

5. Incorporate ecological processes and services into land use planning and decision-making: Landscapes Integrate hydrological processes within a systematic conservation planning framework Leverage ES into sustainable financing for conservation landscapes Bundle biodiversity and ES into conservation and development • Generate a body of knowledge and analytical lessons in: • Mapping key features of ecosystem processes and services • Addressing issues in scale and management (biomes and institutions) • Incorporating ES into land use and development planning (costs and trade-offs) • Economic valuation and design of PES mechanisms (markets, stakeholders, policy) • Understanding ES and landscape resiliency with change

6. Case Study: China • China, with 1.3 billion people, is listed as one of the 13 most water-deficient countries in the world. • China pollution trends are threatening economic growth, human health and watershed ecosystems. (63％of monitored sections in 7 major river basins can not meet standard for drinking water resource’s quality) • Water distribution is extremely uneven in time and space.

7. The root causes of issues…and solutions • The environmental benefits and relevant economic gains have been allocated unfairly between the protectors, beneficiaries, the destructors and victims. • PES (Payment for Environmental Services) is the generic name of a variety of arrangements through which the beneficiaries of ecosystem services pay back to the providers of those services.

8. Existing applications of PES or eco-compensation in China • Huge conservation incentive programs exist in China (the planned investment for the Natural Forest Conservation Program and the Grain to Green Program is $100 billion) • These schemes are based on top-down government decisions, with little attention to the demand or supply forces (market) behind the implementation and public participation

9. Key words

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11. Factors determining the ease or difficulty of establishing a PES system • The “distance” between cause (providers) and effect (beneficiaries) • The numbers of service providers and service beneficiaries • Collecting beneficiary payments and making transfers payments to service providers (channel availability) • The legal and institutional framework • The outcome monitoring system

12. Illustration of a potential PES application: the cases of Lijiang

14. The environmental services • Global benefits are traditionally not included in local PES schemes. • The payment collecting channel of visitors was available – easy to implement

15. Quantification of the ES • Estimating the costs of provision (minimum level) • ► Water improvement (Agriculture income losses to • farmers): 0 • ► Birds biodiversity (Losses to farmers from the bird • sanctuary): US$250,000 • Estimating the theoretical value (maximum level)

16. Potential PES options • Environment friendly agriculture through carefully designed capacity building campaigns and extension services ► Lower fertilizer and pesticide inputs and improved land use ► Organic farming under proper conditions (may influence birds due to greenhouse)

17. Proposed compensation standard(based on WTP)

18. Institutional set up • Special fund ► financial transparency ► public participation • Coordinating body • Outcome monitoring • Enhance public awareness

19. Growth creates environmental risks….…but also opportunities for innovation and reformation Thanks!