EU ORs and OCTs partnerships implementing EU Biodiversity Policy

- the EU's BEST Initiative

Karin Zaunberger

European Commission

DG ENV

Biodiversity Unit

ORs/OCTs – EU & International Biodiversity Policy

2006 Biodiversity Action Plan

2008 Message from Reunion Island

2010 CBD COPX; Strategic Plan - Aichi Targets

BEST Preparatory Action

2011 EU Biodiversity Strategy

Partnerships for Biodiversity

2012 Rio+20

CBD COPXI – 15 Review PoW Island Biodiversity

2013 Third year of BEST Preparatory Action;

Summit of Caribbean Political and Business Leaders hosted in British Virgin Is.

BAT (British Antarctic Territory)

St Pierre & Miquelon

Anguilla British Virgin Is. Turks & Caïcos Caïman Islands Montserrat Sint-Marteen Sint-Eustatius Saba

The EU overseas dimension A major potential for cooperation on climate change and biodiversity

Adélie Land

Greenland

BIOT (British Indian Ocean Ter.)

Falklands (Islas Malvinas)

South Georgia

Mayotte

TAAF (Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises)

New Caledonia

Wallis & Futuna

French Polynesia

Pitcairn

St Helena

Iles Sandwich

Crozet Islands

Amsterdam St-Paul

Ascension

Tristan da Cunha

Kerguelen

Scattered Islands

Azores

Madeira

Canary islands Guadeloupe

Martinique

French Guiana

Reunion

St-Martin St-Barth.

Aruba Bonaire Curaçao

OCTs ORs

Biodiversity hotspot with OR / OCT Major wilderness area with OR / OCT Polar & sub-polar regions

+ 7 grants selected under BEST 2012 + 2 reserve list projects funded through AfD

EU’s BEST Initiative

European Parliament 3 years preparatory action BEST, 3times 2 million €

Member States Council Conclusions; FR, UK, NL International &

Regional CBD COP XI 8 CBD Secretariat, SPREP, IOC, CEPF; …

Other funders AFD 800 000 € for BEST in 2012

PARTNERS “et al” of 84 proposals: local actors in

OR/OCT, public & private organisations, NGOs, researchers

European Commission ENV Biodiversity Strategy, implementation of the Preparatory Action REGIO Communication, monitoring DEVCO Proposals: OCT Association Decision; Global Public Goods and Challenges, monitoring (delegations) CLIMA & MARE interested, roundtable

Next steps

Implementation of the third (and last) year of the Preparatory Action BEST not through an open call for proposals, but through an open call for tender with 2 LOTs aiming at 1 or 2 service contracts for 4 years on "Measures towards sustaining the BEST Preparatory Action to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services in EU Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories".

Aim: Covering all OR and OCTs

Need for partnerships, collaboration, solidarity and clever networking; synergy and complementarity with on-going initiatives.

2 LOTs 1 or 2 contracts working together

view to the setting up of a structure/platform that would enable and facilitate information sharing on funding availability from different sources (EC but also MS and other possible partners – from international financial institutions to NGOs to business) for projects aimed at the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services in EU Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories. This structure/platform will make information available between the finance providers and possible project implementers, as well as contribute to the development of any required support mechanisms (including ecosystem profiles).

Interactive Platform

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support mechanisms

Biodiversity

actors

Project proposers

Funding organisations

EC, MS and other

Sustainable funding for

BEST projects

Milestones of third year of BEST Preparatory Action

• Commission Financing Decision adopted 18 April 2013 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/biodiversity/comm2006/2020.htm#best

• Open Call for Tender launched: 2 May 2013

• Publication on eTendering launch+12 days : 14 May 2013 https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=239

• Closing date : 2 September 2013

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