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The TEEB Community And W hat it Does. Pavan Sukhdev Founder & CEO, GIST Advisory UNEP Goodwill Ambassador. What Makes Successful Partnerships? . Common Understanding or Belief Focus on Shared Priorities Focus on Core Competencies Relationship of Equals. An Example : TEEB? .
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The TEEB Community • And What it Does • PavanSukhdev • Founder & CEO, GIST Advisory • UNEP Goodwill Ambassador
What Makes Successful Partnerships? • Common Understanding or Belief • Focus on Shared Priorities • Focus on Core Competencies • Relationship of Equals
An Example : TEEB? • Common Understanding or Belief? • The Economic Invisibility of Nature’s Services is a Problem • Shared Priorities? • Stopping Ecosystem Degradation & Biodiversity Loss • Core Competencies? • Economists; Ecologists; Social Anthropologists; Policy Analysts; Sustainability Professionals from Govts, Business, NGO’s; Funders • Relationship of Equals? • A Short Story of TEEB …..
…Grew into a TEEB ‘Community’ TEEB Country Studies begun in over 20 countries
Joan-Martinez Alier Edward Barbier Achim Steiner Jacqueline McGlade Yolanda Kakabadse Ahmed Djoghlaf Giles Atkinson Lord Stern Jochen Flasbarth Peter H. May Herman Mulder Walter Reid Julia Marton-Lefevre Karl-Goran Maler Ladislav Miko TEEB Advisory Board
Another Example : Private Sector & Governments? Rationale: • Private Sector is 60% of GDP and 70% of Jobs • Is Sustainability possible without greening the Private Sector? • Can the Private Sector survive for long in an unsustainable world?
Common Understandingof Challenges: Planetary Boundaries, & Social Inequity Source: www.ieet.org Rockstrom et al (2010) Source: Conley (2008)
Negative externalities of top 3,000 companies estimated by Trucostat US$2.15 trillion per annum “Business as Usual is Costing the Environment… Source: Trucost for UNPRI, 2010.
Measuring to Manage Natural Capital : PUMA Source: PPR /PUMA Press Release, 16th Nov 2011
Another Example : Common but Differentiated Responsibilities? Rationale: • Can we avoid Planetary Boundaries if ONLY developing countries keep within bio-capacity? • Can we avoid Planetary Boundaries if ONLY developed countries keep within bio-capacity? • Is “Sustainable Development” only for Developing Countries?
Shared Priority: Steering Clear of Planetary Boundaries Source: www.ieet.org
The Ecological Footprint CARBON footprint FISHING grounds
Common but Differentiated Responsibilities Exceeds biosphere’s average capacity per person, high development Kuwait Threshold for high human development Footprint Reduction UAE U.S.A. Australia Canada Ecological Footprint Russia Korea Rep Japan Mexico Brazil Green Development China South Africa World average biocapacity available per person, ignoring needs of wild species Cuba Nigeria Meets minimum criteria for sustainability India Within biosphere’s average capacity per person, low development Indonesia Afghanistan Source: Global Footprint Network and UNDP
Common but Differentiated Responsibilities Footprint Reduction Common But Differentiated Responsibilities towards SDGs: Green Development in Low-HDI Countries Reducing Footprint in High-Footprint Countries Green Development Source: Global Footprint Network and UNDP
Thank You !www.corp2020.comwww.gistadvisory.com Pavan Sukhdev Founder-CEO, GIST Advisory & UNEP Goodwill Ambassador