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Funded by the Government of Alberta
Ecosystem Services and Conservation OffsetsApril 24th, 2012
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Alberta’s History– Dramatic change in its landscapes
– Energy, forestry, agriculture and urban development
– Competition for land and resources between sectors
– Environmental challenges – limits are being approached; reputation
– Water quality, habitat loss and fragmentation of the landscape; greenhouse gases
– Social license to operate
– Biodiversity, water, and green house gases new drivers of innovation and competitiveness
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Alberta’s Policy– Land Use Framework 2008
• Enables development and use of conservation and stewardship tools, including market based instruments
• Conservation offsets, transfer of development credits
– Water for Life 2008
• Guides water allocation and management
– Provincial Energy Strategy 2008
• Global energy leader, recognized s a responsible world class energy supplier
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Ecosystem services
“The benefits that people obtain from the environment”
(Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005)
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Alberta’s Policy– Land Use Framework 2008
• Enables development and use of conservation and stewardship tools, including market based instruments
• Conservation offsets, transfer of development credits
– Water for Life 2008
• Guides water allocation and management
– Provincial Energy Strategy 2008
• Global energy leader, recognized s a responsible world class energy supplier
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Ecosystem services
“The benefits that people obtain from the environment”
(Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005)
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Ecosystem Services
(Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005)
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Sustainable Development– Cumulative effects management: a planning system
that establishes targets for management of place-based impacts in an area rather than on a project-by-project basis.
– Integrated land management: a planning system used to minimize the human-footprint on public land by sharing land between different users and encouraging land stewardship. (Alberta SRD)
– Integrated resource management: a planning system used to ensure the long-term sustainable use of all available resources in an area. (Orfano, 2011)
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Integrated Resource Management (IRM)IRM focuses on balancing ecosystem services and resources to ensure that the natural systems remain functioning, stable and healthy and to ensure important ecosystem services are maintained.
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Market Based Instruments • One of the economic recommendations of the
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, as a way to better manage our resources and ecosystem services.
• Can generate efficiency, innovation and competitiveness in resource development
• Transfer of Development Credits (TDCs): Used to concentrate development in certain areas and relinquish development pressure in other areas
• Conservation offsets: Used to counterbalance the effects of development on public and private land
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Example of an Offset Scenario
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Supply
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Demand
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Clear collaborative Governance with a defined business model that includes:
Ecosystem Services Assessment Data and Information Management SystemEcosystem Services Trading Platform Verification and Validation SystemsKnowledge Structure Policy Evaluation Process
Key Components Required for a Successful Market-Based Approach
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Data and Information• Support decision making and trade off choices
• Integration to recognize bundling, interaction, linkages
• Define units of exchange
– Supply
– Demand
• Valuation
• Enable improved management of resources
• Inform enhanced efficiency and innovation
• Verify and validate
• Document enhanced environmental health
• Credible…..open…….transparent
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Two Projects • Alberta’s Bio Resource Information Management System
– Silvacom and Green Analytics
• Ecosystem Services Assessment
- Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
• Collaborators:
– Alberta Innovates
– Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency
– Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
– Silvacom and Green Analytics
– Miistakis Institute
– Government of Alberta
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Alberta’s Bio-Resource Information Management System
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute: acting as expert network coordinator to develop a process to assess the supply of ES on any given landscape.
Ecosystem Services Assessment
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute: acting as expert network coordinator to develop a process to assess the supply of ES on any given landscape.
Ecosystem Services Assessment
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- Create an assessment platform on which to add ecosystem services as knowledge grows
- Start with three categories:- Biodiversity- Forest and rangeland health and productivity- Water quality, including role of wetlands,
riparian areas and watersheds
Ecosystem Services Assessment