Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation UVEK
Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU
TEEB From international work to national
actionsThe Swiss Action Plan of the
Biodiversity Strategy
Nathalie Rizzotti, FOEN
TEEB international Workshop, Vilm, 21-25.05.2013
Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation UVEK
Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU
Content
TEEB international and related processesSwiss Biodiversity Strategy (SBS)The Action Plan SBS and Participatory processTEEB in the SBSChallenges
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TEEB and Switzerland
Great interest for TEEB into practice-Phase III(Sectoriel and national)
Support the TEEB Secretariat-Donor since 2011 Member from the international coordination groupWorkshops/conferences (World Wetlands day Geneva)Support and part of the steering committee of TEEB related project (e.g. UNDP Biodiversity Financing Project –BIOFIN)
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Switzerland support to related processes
Wealth accounting and the valuation of ecosystem services (WAVES) The natural capital program of International Finance corporation (IFC) Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)(Colombia, Vietnam)
EEA ENCA-European Network of Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies/Ecosystem services DACH (Germany-Austria-Switzerland)
Coordination-Collaboration
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Before the Biodiversity Strategy-Steps towards a TEEB…
2011: Report on Indicators for ecosystem goods and services
List of relevant ecosystem services for Switzerland Concrete proposal for operationalization
Indicators connected to welfare: health, security, natural diversity.
Interest in non monetary valorisation to show the importance of environment for social benefits and well being. Tool: to assess impact of a project on ecosystem services: Oesl-check.ethz.ch (German)
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Swiss Biodiversity Strategy (SBS)
Overall long term objective (Federal Council decision 01.07.2009)
•“Biodiversity is rich and has the capacity to react to change”•“Biodiversity and its ecosystem services are conserved in the long term”
Participative Action plan
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1.Encourage Sustainable use
4.Preserve genetic diversity
7.Strengthen Knowledge
2.Dev. Green infrastructure
3.Enhance survival of species
5.Review Financial incentives
6.Assess and quantify ecosystem services
8.Improve the quality in urban contexts
9.Strenghten Internat. engagement
SBS: 10 Strategic goals
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Action Plan SBS Mandate of the Federal Council:
Action Plan for the implementation of the SBS with concrete measures to fulfil the strategic goals
10 strategic goals – five areas of action (AB):
• I: Sustainable use of biodiversity
• II: Promotion of biodiversity
• III: Economic values
• IV: Creation and distribution of knowledge
• V: International engagement
The five areas of action are divided into 26 fields of action (HF)
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Development of measures
2012 2013
Participatory process at the strategic level
Analysis of actors and instruments
Development of measures
Planning of implementation
Participatory process within fields of action
Participatory process in fields of action
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Fields of action SBS with potential measures related to TEEB
Sustainable use of biodiversity -„Economy“ (FA1.9)
TEEB for business Evaluation of risks and opportunities for business related to ecosystem
services (impact, strategy, reporting)-Pilote projects to develop methodology?
Economic values- „Assess ecosystem services“ (FA3.2)
services
Development quantitative assessment (dev.indicators (SEEA), mapping, instruments)
TEEB Switzerland Coordination of research on ecosystem services (NFP -ES) Strengthen international work
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• Until June 2013: Development of the measures within the fields of action
• July to December 2013: Planning of the implementation and formulation of the action plan
• January to February 2014: Interdepartmental consultation
• May 2014: Presentation to Federal Council
• 2014 – 2020: Implementation of the action plan SBS
Timetable Action Plan SBS
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Further information
BAFU - Biodiversität - Aktionsplan Strategie Biodiversität Schweiz
www.bafu.admin.ch/biodiversitaet
On-going information about the progress within the action plan and the fields of action:
• Project information action plan SBS
• Results• Newsletter (French and German)
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Synergies and challenges
DecisionsInitiativesTools
Implementation,Tools adaptationSupport to different process (Green Economy action plan)
InformationBest practicesExchangeMotivation
InformationBest practicesExchangeMotivation
Coordination-synergies-coherence
CoordinationCommunication
International
National
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Challenges
Explain TEEB!
Concrete standardized methodology to estimate and demonstrate value?
Natural capital/ ycl. ecosystem services dimension
Ecosystems value- dimension of non used of human?
Safeguards and reflexion on the message given by economic valuation
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Thank you for your attention!