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Payments for Ecosystems / Environmental Services (PES)
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Shaking the money pot to protect nature
Nature gives us a lot: water, timber, minerals, biodiversity, food, clean air… But the perception that natural capital is endless and free leads to overuse and under-investment – and we constantly hear that there's not enough money to invest in the environment. The 22nd Poverty Environment Partnership conference asked how we can shake the piggy bank to give something back to nature
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The hilsa fishing ban: good for the fish, but good for the fisher?
Seasonal fishing bans are helping to recover stocks of Bangladesh's national fish, the hilsa. Bigger fish are fetching better prices and – from traders to retailers − many people along the value chain are benefiting. But a new IIED study shows how one group is slipping through the net: the fishermen and women
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Action to protect nature and tackle poverty gathers momentum
An IIED workshop heard how new global agendas and advances in ways to measure the benefits of natural resources are reframing the debate on how to protect the environment while reducing poverty
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Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
Market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) and conditional social transfers (CSTs), can be used to promote social and environmental objectives. This project will look at PES and CST schemes at both national and sub-national levels in eight countries. The aim is to inform the design of practical solutions for tackling poverty and improving ecosystems.
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Finding solutions for less poverty and better ecosystems
Policy measures to tackle poverty often overlook environmental impacts, while environmental policies do not always deliver for the poor. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require both – so how can governments combine efforts?
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Investing in hilsa fishery as economic infrastructure for Bangladesh
Hilsa fishery is highly valuable to Bangladesh, and anecdotal evidence suggests that the use of economic incentives to manage the fishery has had positive social and ecological outcomes. This project aimed to estimate the true economic value of hilsa fishery and rigorously assess the impact of the economic incentive mechanism
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Save the date: Payments for Ecosystem Services conference and workshop in Uganda
How can we promote the protection of natural resources in an equitable way? Two events in Uganda will look at the key issues
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Can we save our fisheries with lessons from our forests?
Payments to encourage the conservation of important natural resources are being used to protect forests, but can they also play a role in restoring depleted fisheries?
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Protecting ecosystems and livelihoods in Bangladesh
Bangladesh shifts towards more effective, equitable and sustainable approaches to safeguard hilsa fishing
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International seminar to demonstrate economic value of marine and coastal ecosystem services
An international seminar in Costa Rica on Friday, 5 September focused on the economic contribution of marine and coastal ecosystem services to the regional economy
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Payments for ecosystem services: We can't leave people out of the equation
What's next for schemes that pay communities to protect local ecosystems? This is what leading researchers and practitioners in the field came together to discuss at IIED's conference in Edinburgh last week
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Inspiring action for sustainable fisheries: Today and the future
In the wake of predictions that the oceans will be fishless by 2050, IIED has produced an animation to showcase its work on the economics of marine and coastal fisheries
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Coverage of conference on Innovations for equity in smallholder PES: bridging research and practice
On March 21, IIED hosted a conference that aimed to explore the latest thinking on how to make schemes that compensate protectors of natural resources fairer and more inclusive
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Random trials in Uganda to show if payments for ecosystems services really work
To assess whether a promising approach to reduce poverty and conserve forests in Uganda really works, we need to use a randomised controlled trial, says Paul Hatanga.
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Are "alternative livelihoods" projects effective?
Considerable sums have been spent on projects designed to provide people with alternative ways to make a living in and around protected or biodiverse areas. But do such projects work?
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Who will pay for ecosystem services?
Payments for ecosystem services have the potential to promote healthier ecosystems and fairer deals for smallholders. This is all very good, but where will the money for such schemes come from?
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IIED and Hivos set up 'Change Labs' on food and energy
IIED and development organisation Hivos have today launched a two-year strategic partnership to provide research-based policy advice to improve sustainable food systems and access to energy in developing and emerging countries.
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Save the date: IIED conference on payments for ecosystem services
The International Institute for Environment and Development will hold a meeting on 21 March 2014 in Edinburgh to explore ways to make schemes that compensate protectors of natural resources fairer and more inclusive.
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Fishy business at IIED
The end of November was an exciting time for IIED’s Sustainable Markets Group, which launched two publications and an online network, all with a focus on sustainable fisheries. Grace Philip reports.
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Payments for ecosystem services: Costa Rica’s recipe
Costa Rica has adopted a mix of economic and regulatory policies to protect its forests – the eclectic mix of ingredients could be judged a recipe for success.
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Five ways to boost stocks of the Bay of Bengal’s beloved hilsa fish
A pioneering scheme that could boost stocks of a fish that feeds millions of people in Bangladesh, India and Myanmar may be a model for other fisheries, but would be more effective if it changed in five ways, says a study published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development.
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Fish Night @ IIED will launch book and online network
The International Institute for Environment and Development will launch our latest book, Economic Incentives for Marine and Coastal Conservation: Prospects, Challenges and Policy Implications on 28 November.
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How to protect our oceans: use more carrots
Incentives to protect marine and coastal environments could be more effective than a ‘command and control’ approach, but only if reinforced by efficient, transparent and equitable governance.
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Designing REDD+ to promote sustainable development and reduce poverty
From 2009-13 this IIED project looked at how REDD+ could be designed to promote sustainable development and reduce poverty, as well as reduce deforestation and forest degradation
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Will Payments for Watershed Services fuel the protection of ecosystem services?
It’s easier to prevent pollution harnessing the forces of nature than to clean up the mess with costly technology. Is there a solution at hand?
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Compensation for conservation of Bangladesh’s national fish
IIED and partners have launched a project that aims to conserve the most important fish species in the cuisine of Bangladesh — the hilsa — by redesigning a system that rewards people who help to protect it.
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The value of valuing ecosystem services
Economists continually fail to get the message across. Nowhere is this more evident than in dealing with ecosystem services.
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Nature has values, and markets can be governed
The environmental community has been rightly wary of markets. But payments for environmental services can play a role in protecting nature, so long as governments guide, govern and regulate such markets.
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Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20
While the outcomes from Rio +20 may not currently give grounds for much optimism, its value is likely to be in less tangible, longer-term changes in attitudes and understanding.
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Costa Rica: Growing money on trees
Actions urgently needed to protect ecosystems are costly, and money doesn’t rain down from the sky or grow from the trees. Or does it?
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Buy me an ocean: why we need payments for coastal and marine environments
Without incentives to properly manage coastal and marine environments, these valuable resources will continue to deteriorate — with dire consequences for already impoverished communities.
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Seven Rio+20 briefing papers from IIED
The International Institute for Environment and Development has published seven briefing papers on topics that will feature in the Rio+20 summit and IIED’s Fair ideas conference, also in Rio, on 16-17 June.
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Buy me a river
Asking poor households how much they would be willing to pay to protect a river in Thailand can help put a tangible price-tag on the river’s benefits — from clean water to flood control — and realistically assess the costs of overexploitation and degradation.
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Markets and payments for environmental services
Payments for environmental services (also known as payments for ecosystem services or PES), are payments to farmers or landowners who have agreed to take certain actions to manage their land or watersheds to provide an ecological service.
