The Win-Win workshop

1. The Win-Win workshop Achieving National and Sectoral Development Priorities Through the Use of Environmental Outlooks and Improved MEA Implementation

2. Welcome Remarks from Anya Thomas, CARICOM

3. Welcome Remarks from Andrea Salinas, UNEP-ROLAC

4. Welcome Remarks from Livia Bizikova, iisd

5. Rationale for this Workshop • Regarding MEA implementation….. “Tendency not to take on a specific MEA and due to perception it belongs to a single Ministry and not relevant to others” “What is the national development plan and how does the MEA fit into this. Need to show that the MEA fits into the plan and is not additional work.” “They need to highlight what the national benefit is of the MEAs. The minister needs to see how and why it is good for the country”

6. Rationale for this Workshop • Regarding Integrated Environmental Assessment and Reporting… “They are not useful because by the time the documents is compiled and published the information is old, no longer relevant” “Knowledge is required to change culture…How will my livelihood be impacted by the change in the environment? “The best type of information in these reports are best practices. This makes it real for the decision makers, otherwise the information is intangible”

7. Workshop Agenda IMPLEMENTATION AND REPORTING #1 Clarify Focal MEAs, Status and Linkages with Development Priorities Tool #1: MEA Priorities Mapping using Ecosystem - Wellbeing Linkages [Day 1 am/pm] #6 Prepare MEA Policy Planning Brief #2 Identify Synergies Among Focal MEAs Tool #6: Policy Planning Brief [Day 4 am] Tool #2: MEA Synergy Mapping using DPSIR Analysis [Day 2 am] MEA Outcome Planning Tool #5: Policy Stress Testing using Existing Scenarios [Day 3 pm] #3 Articulate Desired Future Outcomes #5 Assess Risks and Opportunities and Improve and Adapt as Necessary Tool #3: Setting the Challenge Scenario [Day 2 pm] #4 Identify Portfolio of MEA Policies for Achieving Future Outcomes Tool #4: Policy Mapping and Back-casting [Day 3am]

8. Session 1 Demonstrating the Relevance of MEAs to National and Sectoral Priorities Using Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA) Tools

9. Overview of Focal MEAs for this Workshop Chris Corbin, UNEP

10. Overview of the UNEP GEO Integrated Environmental Assessment Process and Reports Andrea Salinas, UNEP-ROLAC

11. Breakout Group Discussion [30 min] • Task #1: Share an example with your colleagues of how an MEA was demonstrated as relevant to national and/or sectoral development priorities. • Task #2: Discuss how environmental data and analysis played a role or could have played a role in the demonstration of relevance. Identify a note-taker and document at least two case examples on an individual flipchart paper. Be prepared to present your cases in plenary.

12. Group Presentations and Discussion

13. Tool #1Priorities Mapping Development Priority MEA Using ecosystem services / human wellbeing linkages from the IEA toolkit to map the connections between MEA commitments and national and sectoral priorities

14. Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being • Ecosystem services are the benefits that people gain from ecosystems • A change in an environmental state can impact on a range of ecosystem services • A change in an ecosystem service can in turn, impact on various aspects of human well-being • These impacts can be identified with an ecosystem services and human well-being framework

15. Millennium Assessment Framework

16. Millennium Assessment Framework

17. Millennium Assessment Framework

18. Types of Ecosystem Services (MA 2003)

19. Types of Ecosystem Services - continued

21. Example Impact Pathway Diagram Change in Coastal Water Quality • Livelihoods – of local residents • Health – of local residents that snorkel or dive the reef for recreation • Cultural – a change in the ability of the reef to provide recreation and eco-tourism opportunities

22. Discovery Bay, Jamaica Pressures: overfishing, coastal runoff, disease and bleaching events State: Degraded reef system Potential Impacts: • Loss of natural coastal protection • Ability of the reef to recover from natural disasters or infestations • The ability of islands residents to provide food through fresh fish could be negatively affected because the numbers and composition of fish species has declined • The ability of Discovery Bay to provide recreation benefits to residents and tourists • The impact on human well-being can be through changes to the livelihood of local fishers, degraded recreational opportunities and tourism revenue, as well as human health impacts through reduce food security World Resource Institute, 2010 Caribbean Environment Outlook

23. Tool #1Priorities Mapping Development Priority MEA Using ecosystem services / human wellbeing linkages from the IEA toolkit to map the connections between MEA commitments, national and sectoral priorities

24. Step #1: Identifying Human Wellbeing Aspects

26. Step #2: Identifying Ecosystem Services

28. Step #3: Identifying Linkages Between Human Wellbeing and Ecosystem Services

30. Step #4: Compile data on current status, trends and scenarios for human wellbeing aspects and ecosystem services

31. Step #4: Compile data on current status, trends and scenarios for human wellbeing aspects and ecosystem services

32. Step #5: Develop compelling narrative demonstrating the importance of MEA commitments to national development priorities

33. Breakout Group Exercise #1 [75 min] • Step #1: Identifying Human Wellbeing Aspects. • Individually, pick a priority/goal from your national development plan and complete the Priority-Wellbeing worksheet provided [10 min] • Discuss your results with your table colleagues and refine your worksheet as necessary. [5 min] • Step #2: Identifying Ecosystem Services. • As a group, determine the two primary states of the environment that your Table MEA addresses and complete the Environmental State-Ecosystem Services worksheet provided. [15 min]

34. Breakout Group Exercise #1 • Step #3: Identifying Linkages Between Human Wellbeing and Ecosystem Services • As a group, describe how each of the ecosystem services help support each of the wellbeing aspects identified for your national priority. Are some links stronger or more direct than others? [15 min] • Step #4: Compile data on current status, trends and scenarios • Individually, review the relevant environmental reports and national statistics for your country and extract any relevant information to help describe the state, trends and future projections of the ecosystem services that were linked to the national priority you identified in Step #1. [10 min] • Share what information you found with your table colleagues and discuss if you found what you were looking for [5 min]

35. Breakout Group Exercise #1 • Step #5: Develop compelling narrative demonstrating the importance of MEA commitments to national development priorities • Individually, write a one paragraph briefing note communicating to your Prime Minister how your focal MEA is important to the achievement of specific national development priorities, incorporating any environmental data and projections you were able to find. [10 min] • Have your colleague to your right review your briefing note and revise as needed. [5 min] Decide as a group who will present their briefing note in plenary and share the experience (what worked and what did not) of using the MEA Priorities Mapping Tool

36. Tool #1: MEA Priorities Mapping Group Presentations and Discussion