TEEB and the CBD NBSAPs Revision Pan-Europe and beyond

Thierry Lucas, Regional Office for Europe, UNEP

Decision X/2 on the Strategic Plan urges Parties with the support of other organizations to:

• Enable participation at all levels;

• Develop national targets by 2012, taking into account both the global targets and the status & trends of biological diversity in the country, with a view to contributing to collective global efforts to reach the global targets, and report to COP-11;

• Review, update and revise NBSAPs by 2014, in line with the Strategic Plan and decision IX/9, and integrating national targets, adopt as a policy instrument, and report to COP-11 or -12 (2014);

• Use the revised and updated NBSAPs as effective instruments for the integration of biodiversity targets into national development and poverty reduction policies and strategies;

• Monitor and review the implementation of their NBSAPS making use of the set of indicators developed for the Strategic Plan and report to COP through the fifth and sixth national reports;

Decision X/2

Develop National Targets

National Targets

Review of targets & support

COP – 112012

COP – 112012

SixthNational Report

GBO – 5Review of achievement

COP2020COP2020

COP – 122014

COP – 122014

National circumstances

National circumstances

CBDStrategic

Plan

CBDStrategic

Plan

GBO – 4Mid-term reviewMonitor

Implem-entation

FifthNational Report

COP-9NBSAP

guidance

COP-9NBSAP

guidance

Update NBSAP

NBSAP as policy instrument

Road map and guidance findings

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HOW to incorporate values as part of the NBSAP updating process(from Lessons Learnt from incorporating the values of biodiversity and ecosystem services into the development of NBSAPs)

Entry points for incorporating values exist at every stage of the NBSAP updating process

A range of supporting approaches can be used:• Stakeholder engagement • Ecosystem assessment• Ecosystem service mapping• Ecosystem service indicators• Monetary valuation• Accounting

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NBSAP Updating steps against supporting approaches

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Examples of how approaches can support incorporation of values

An Ecosystem Assessment can help to gather data on

the status and trends of biodiversity, and its links to human well-being and

society

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Examples of how approaches can support incorporation of values

Ecosystem service indicators can be used to track implementation of NBSAP and impacts on

biodiversity and ecosystem services

• First NBSAP of Georgia was approved by the government of Georgia in February, 2005;

• In May, 2010 updating of NBSAP in line with Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and Aichi Targets has been started (adopted at CBD CoP 10 in Nagoya, Japan, 2010);

• This process is supported by the German International Cooperation (GIZ)

• The updated NBSAP will cover the time period for 2014-2020;

Example of GeorgiaExample of Georgia

Ecosystem Service Values in NBSAPEcosystem Service Values in NBSAP

• In 2011, Georgia was announced as a pilot country for the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB);

• NBSAP updating process and TEEB scoping study were carried out in parallel;

• The values of ecosystems and biodiversity from the scoping could not be reflected in the updating process;

• This is an opportunity to bridge the division between economic and social development and conservation needs in Georgia;

Ecosystem Service Values in NBSAP (2)Ecosystem Service Values in NBSAP (2)

• Before the scoping various economic valuation studies have been undertaken;

• The results of studies and general TEEB activities are incorporated in different chapters of the zero draft of NBSAP; Chapters such as Forest Ecosystems, Management and Governance of Biodiversity, Valuation and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources;

• Under the objective - Creation of economic management tools and effective mechanisms to ensure integration of biodiversity aspects in decision-making – TEEB is the main source & activity;

• Currently, results of the first draft of TEEB Scoping Study are already in place and will be put in NBSAPs

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