Source: UNEP
Capturing Coral Reef & Related Ecosystem Services
(CCRES)
A GEF / World Bank Regional Project under the programScaling Up Partnership Investments for Sustainable Development of the Large Marine
Ecosystems of East Asia and their Coasts
CCRES Partners• Global Environment Facility• World Bank• The University of Queensland• The University of The Philippines• De La Salle University, Philippines• Cornell University• University of California Davis• Indonesian Universities –(TBC)• WWF-US and WWF-Indonesia• Currie Communications
COREMAPPRDP & WAVESCoastal Resources for Sustainable Development
PROP: Pacific Island Regional Oceanscape Project
&WB Climate Change
Adaptation Strategies
PEMSEA
Project Snapshot• Region
– East Asia-Pacific (Philippines, Indonesia, Pacific Islands)
• Duration– Five years– Effective date: 1 October 2013– Closing date: 30 September 2018
• Current Financing ($10.4m)– Cash: US $4.5 m (GEF) & AUD $2.0 m (UQ)– In-Kind: $3.9 m
• The University of Queensland – Project Executing Agency– Research Partner
Mission:
To engage government and coastal communities in bringing whole-of-system thinking to the design of local
economies founded on a mutually reinforcing relationship between ecosystem health and economic performance
What will CCRES do?
This gives a material rationale for decision-makers to sustain coastal ecosystems and the locally-accrued
benefits that they contribute to human wellbeing and prosperity
What challenge is CCRES addressing?
Discounting the future
Limited understanding of trade-offs
Lack of business acumen and innovation
Challenge:• In coastal communities, local businesses frequently
degrade the natural resources on which they rely• At the same time, alternative livelihoods schemes
rarely succeed in becoming financially self-sustaining, often set up by those with little or no business expertise, making supply-driven products that do not consider demand or market access
• Both problems stem from ignoring the value chain that extends from the natural resource, via the producer, all the way to the end-consumer.
So CCRES:
• Targets Investigations to quantify, model, clarify and map ES role & value and inform local communities (and Government)
• Integrates ES information with business practices---assessed to strengthen those practices & their value chains from the resource base to the consumer
• Targets communication & ownership—seeking +Δ in routine practice & behavior
Natural Capital
Business Enterprises
Local Community and Government
Ecosystem services
Norms, attitudes,
policy
Environmental Impacts ±
Livelihoods,food security
Project Components
Measuring, valuing, mapping
Engaging, persuading,
enabling
Integrating, securing,
monetising
Dissemination & outreach
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C.2
C.1
Component I“Quantifying the value and market potential of coral reef and mangrove ecosystem services”
Objective:To provide CCRES technical input on economic,
social, natural and management science
“Measuring, valuing and mapping”
• Targeted Investigations fill information gaps on the roles that ES play in a specific community– Coastal protection– Fisheries– Tourism– Carbon sequestration
Measuring Ecosystem Services
Effect of reef health on fisheries productivity
“What is the value of a management action relative to cost?”
DegradedProductive
Ecosystem Service Benefits:
a) National wealth accounts (alongside other forms of capital, e.g., minerals, human, agriculture)
b) Local stakeholders better understand how a change in ecosystem health affects their daily lives
c) Incorporate value into Marine Spatial Planning to improve benefits to people and reduce conflict
Why value ecosystem services?
Effects of governance on the flow of ecosystem service benefits
“Who gets what, and why?”
Reconciling trade-offs among ecosystem services
“How do we get optimal outcomes for multiple objectives?”
Marine Spatial Planning
CCRESsites
Philippines1. Batangas2. Visayas3. Palawan (north/south)
Indonesia1. Bali2. Selayer3. Wakatobi4. Bird’s Head5. Biak
Pacific?KiribatiSolomons
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Component II
“Forging community-led innovation in capturing and sustaining benefits from
ecosystem service values and enhancing resilience in the face of climate change”
Objective: To provide expertise in business innovation, management science and complex systems
analysis
“Integrating, balancing and securing”
Direct sale
CO2
Supporting services
Regulating services Cultural services
Provisioning services
Complementarity
Component II aims to build business that directly or indirectly utilise these…
…while reinforcing or maintaining these.
Activities
1. Understand current systems– Current & external businesses– Inventory “eco-businesses”
2. Business development– Assess existing & potential eco-
business for triple bottom line performance
3. Decision Toolkit development
Component III
“Promoting behavioural change through outreach, decision support and regional learning”
Objective: To provide expertise in communications, value
systems, policy, engagement and outreach
“Engaging, persuading, and enabling”
Integration
• Survey development & application• Values analysis• Social network analysis• Policy and governance impact
Component III
Next Steps• Approved by World Bank Board – September 2013• Start date: 1 October, 2013• Project Operating Manual & Implementation Plan• Procurement call for Implementation team &
appoint team members• Commence implementation
Melanie King, UQ Global Change [email protected]