Biodiversity-CHM.NL - Payment for biodiversity and ecosystem services

Payment for biodiversity: Targets

2012-02-07T14:20:04Z

The Dutch government's targets with respect to payment for biodiversity for 2011 are:

No later than 2011, to agree with the business community on specific measures involving payment and/or compensation for the use of biodiversity (in the Netherlands and elsewhere) on the basis of an advisory report by the ‘Biodiversity and natural resources' task force.
To help anchor the value of biodiversity in an international context, particularly by highlighting non-trade related aspects (‘non-trade concerns') in the WTO and in the further development and implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU.
To quickly reach international agreements on economic instruments addressing deforestation and degradation of moorlands, as a part of the climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. The Netherlands' contribution to this effort will include participating in a pilot programme organised by the World Bank to reduce CO2 emissions by avoiding deforestation (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, REDD).
To help formulate international agreements on access to genetic resources and a fair distribution of the benefits derived from them (Access and Benefit Sharing, ABS).
To continue the shift towards environmental taxes and, where necessary, to design or redesign and constantly update incentives, such as the Green Investment scheme and the VAMIL and MIA subsidy schemes for investments by companies in environmental improvements.
To support initiatives aimed at developing markets for both goods derived from biodiversity and for ecosystem services. Where the government operates in the market, it will encourage the market by employing sustainable procurement practices.
Together with international partners and civil society organisations, to explore and promote international mechanisms and instruments involving payment for biodiversity products and services and compensation for unsustainable use of biodiversity.
To research possibilities for linking sustainability criteria to subsidies.

Working group Payment for biodiversity

2012-02-07T14:20:04Z

Work space for the working group

Biodiversiteit en Bedrijfsleven

2012-02-07T14:20:04Z

Investing in healthy ecosystems makes economic sense (Conference)

2012-02-07T14:20:04Z

Following the release of the TEEB’s policy makers report entitled “The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity”, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment organised a conference on 20 April 2010 on the theme “Investing in healthy ecosystems makes economic sense”.

The guest speakers were:

Patrick ten Brink, co-ordinator of the TEEB for Policy Makers report and Head of the Institute for European Environmental Policy’s Brussels Office
Jetske Bouma, researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the VU University Amsterdam

Payment for biodiversity: priorities, themes and activities

2012-02-07T14:20:04Z

page 30 from the biodiversity policy programme 2008-2011

Film: The User Pays for Biodiversity

2012-02-16T18:40:41Z

Short film introducing the Dutch Policy Priority on Payment for biodiversity and ecosystem services