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RIRDC | CSIRO | BBG | GBCMA | DIPNR NSW | L&WA
MARKETS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES -Direct payments for Biodiversity in
Australia
Structure Dave SheltonCSIRO Australia
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Structure
• Current approaches to biodiversity conservation on private land (i.e. regulation & incentives) - Landcare.
• Ecosystem services and markets – why?
• Links to NRM targets and goals
• Single site markets - BushTender.
• Interrelated/group bids, multiple outcome & interconnected markets – Corridor Retention; Conservation Beyond Fencing.
• Conclusions, warnings and recommendations
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The Key Point
Markets for biodiversity are a powerful tool for conserving biodiversity – but the mechanism design must carefully consider the characteristics of the landscape, the services, the issues and the management goals!!!
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Current Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation
History of regulations & incentives :
• Clearing restrictions – Native Vegetation Conservation
– Monitoring and enforcement difficult few prosecutions.
• Incentives – Landcare/NHT flat rate, single site, limited strategic alignment – but simple and well understood; low TC’s.
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Structure
• Current approaches to biodiversity conservation on private land (i.e. regulation & incentives) - Landcare.
• Ecosystem services and markets – why?
• Links to NRM targets and goals
• Single site markets - BushTender.
• Interrelated/group bids, multiple outcome & interconnected markets – Corridor Retention.
• Conclusions, warnings and recommendations
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Ecosystem services and markets – why?
Ecosystem services:
• Valuing the priceless,– e.g. Costanza, Daily, Australian Ecosystem Services
Project; The Katoomba Group
Increased scientific certainty and awareness of value = emerging markets
(and market based instruments)
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Markets and Market Based Instruments (MBI’s)
Policy tools that encourage positive behaviour using market like approaches:
MBI’s
Market FrictionQuantity BasedPrice Based
Leveraging private investment;
Approaches to uncertainty and risk;
Product differentiation
cap & trade; offsets
auctions; subsidies;
rebates; taxes
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Structure
• Current approaches to biodiversity conservation on private land (i.e. regulation & incentives) - Landcare.
• Ecosystem services and markets – why?
• Links to NRM targets and goals
• Single site markets - BushTender.
• Interrelated/group bids, multiple outcome & interconnected markets – Corridor Retention.
• Conclusions, warnings and recommendations
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Markets and MBI’s – advantages and links to NRM targets and goals
Addresses market failures
Well designed MBI’s are outcome focussed vs input incentives.
Flexibility, efficiency and innovation
Allowance for landscape heterogeneity often results in increases to total positive “change” – compared to alternatives
Often longer term and can be more self-sustaining
Leverages new sources of investment
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Players, motivations and benefits
• Government• NGO’s• Private Sector• Landholders
Process benefits – flexibility; efficiency; innovation; equity of
access; broad engagement, information asymmetries
Outcomes – Increased returns on investment; potential for multiple outcomes (e.g. environment and
reputation); new markets
Gains from trade
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Structure
• Current approaches to biodiversity conservation on private land (i.e. regulation & incentives) - Landcare.
• Ecosystem services and markets – why?
• Links to NRM targets and goals
• Single site markets - BushTender.
• Interrelated/group bids, multiple outcome & interconnected markets – Corridor Retention.
• Conclusions, warnings and recommendations
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Single site markets – Price Based MBI
Bush Tender – Improved private land biodiversity conservation (VIC Gov)
• Auction for land management contracts
– 25% more native vegetation conserved compared to fixed price approaches and grant schemes
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Single site markets – Price Based MBI
Conservation covenants – Improved private land biodiversity conservation (Federal Gov)
• Voluntary conservation agreement – linked to land title.
– Tax concessions including: income tax deductions; special treatment of capital gains tax
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Structure
• Current approaches to biodiversity conservation on private land (i.e. regulation & incentives) - Landcare.
• Ecosystem services and markets – why?
• Links to NRM targets and goals
• Single site markets - BushTender.
• Interrelated/group bids, multiple outcome & interconnected markets – Corridor Retention.
• Conclusions, warnings and recommendations
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Multiple outcome markets……
Heterogeneity – when is a single issue market versus a multiple issue market appropriate?
Key, and often confused, issue!!!
• Explicit consideration of interacting bids
• Group bids
Strategic outcomes; multiple and landscape benefits BUT more complex and increased uncertainty may cause
failure
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When might a market be better? Single versus multiple outcome…
Biophysical Hotspots?
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Multiple targets?
Biophysical Hotspots
Salinity
Water Quality
Soil Health
Biodiversity
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Single management strategy = single outcome?
Biophysical Hotspots
Salinity
Water Quality
Soil Health
Biodiversity Catchment BlueprintManagement
Actions
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Landholder heterogeneity?
Biophysical Hotspots
Salinity
Water Quality
Soil Health
Biodiversity Catchment Blueprint
Socio-economic data
Landholder Heterogeneity
Management Actions
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Rapid Assessment – When might a market be better?
Biophysical Hotspots
Salinity
Water Quality
Soil Health
Biodiversity
Heterogeneity = market potential
Catchment Blueprint
Socio-economic data
Landholder Heterogeneity
Management Actions
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Habitat Value - Muttama
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Conceptualisation
4. Separate single outcome markets – relatively greater freedom in sites and management actions.
3. Programs/Markets with management actions specified, but greater freedom in location
No
2. Programs/Markets with biophysical sites specified, but greater flexibility in management actions
1. Multiple outcome market – site and management actions reasonably specific
Yes
Biophysical
Hotspots
Overlappin
g
NoYesManagement Actions Overlapping
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Findings
• Not all issues are amenable to application of an MBI.
• Bundled markets are not necessarily possible – desirable correlations between issues and actions are often weak or non-existent.
– Salinity and Biodiversity = weak/no correlation
• Inappropriate inclusion of multiple issues may result in market failure – complexity; TC’s; etc
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Multiple outcome markets……
E.G. Corridor Retention vs Establishment/Conservation
• Needs to link to the landscape & NRM goals
QLD – Corridor RetentionLandscape possibilities,
multiple options
WA – Highly cleared landscape with many nodes
Group Bids – markets vs facilitative processes depending
on the actual landscape characteristics and resources
Green Bank (greening Australia) – Risk-perception gap
• Lives and dies by environmental science and investment analysis
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Structure
• Current approaches to biodiversity conservation on private land (i.e. regulation & incentives) - Landcare.
• Ecosystem services and markets – why?
• Links to NRM targets and goals
• Single site markets - BushTender.
• Interrelated/group bids, multiple outcome & interconnected markets – Corridor Retention.
• Conclusions, warnings and recommendations
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Global Scale Opportunities
Relatively limited in comparison to most other ecosystem service markets:
• Single species flagship markets – arguably not a market for biodiversity (a charity?); conservation science encouraging but not conclusive - except in limited circumstances (focal species vs habitat hectares, Bios)
– Often construed as a market for access and recreation – what are you really selling?
– Beware perverse outcomes – Koala…..
• Property rights not really resolved– What are the implications for other species???
– Depending on “use” - still not excludable, non-rival and transferability issues.
• Advances in public private partnerships represent good opportunity for immediate advances.
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Conclusions, warning and recommendations
1. What is the product??? Really???
2. Clearly articulated – definition of property rights over something that is difficult to define and understand scientifically
3. Excludability, non-rival product – highly limited market without!
4. Transaction costs in thin markets.
5. Beware inappropriate inclusion of multiple outcomes!
6. Private/Private Markets: progress is being made in definition, packaging and marketing – even though market lacks definition.
7. The discipline of markets is improving incentives, as well as encouraging innovation in conserving biodiversity.
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For more information….
David Shelton
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
www.ecosystemservicesproject.org.au