Session 2

1. Session 2 Identifying Synergies Among MEAs Using IEA Tools

2. 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]

3. Group and Plenary Discussion Sharing examples of countries that have identified and leveraged the synergies among MEAs to enhance implementation

4. Tool #2MEA Synergy Mapping Using ecosystem services / human wellbeing linkages from the IEA toolkit to map the connections between MEA commitments, national and sectoral priorities

5. DPSIR Analytical Framework HUMAN SOCIETY DRIVERS Indirect influence through human development PRESSURES Sectors Human influences Natural processes IMPACTS Human well-being Economic, Social Goods & Services Direct influence through human interventions RESPONSES Mitigation and adaptation Ecosystem Services STATE AND TRENDS Water, land, atmosphere, biodiversity ENVIRONMENT Step 1 What is happening to the environment and why? Step 2 What are the consequences for the environment and humanity? Step 3 What is being done and how effective is it?

6. Example – Telling an Integrated MEA Story HUMAN SOCIETY DRIVERS Population growth PRESSURES Agriculture Sewage Discharge Erosion IMPACTS well-being - Access to clean water - Nourishment - health and relations Services - Fresh water - Food - Recreation Direct influence through human interventions RESPONSES N and P regulation Infrastructure Bottle water STATE AND TRENDS River water quality–declining ENVIRONMENT Step 1 What is happening to the environment and why? Step 2 What are the consequences for the environment and humanity? Step 3 What is being done and how effective is it?

7. Air Quality Water Quality Soil Quality Understanding Inter-linkages

11. Breakout Group Exercise #2 [60 min] • Step #1:Identify Environmental States • Using the flipchart provided, list the state(s) of the environment that your table’s focal MEA is addressing, along with specific targets cited • Step #2: Identify Direct Pressures • Using the flipchart provided, list the direct pressures on the state(s) of the environment identified above, along with specific targets cited • Step #3: Identify High-level Drivers • Using the flipchart provided, list the high-level drivers of change influencing the direct pressures identified above, along with any specific targets cited • Step #3: Articulate Impacts • Articulate the primary impacts associated with changes in the environmental state(s). Use the ecosystem services categories to assist with this analysis. Select a spokesperson to present your results in plenary

12. Tool #2: MEA Priorities Mapping Group Presentations and Plenary Analysis of MEA Synergies