Source: UNEP

Capturing Coral Reef & Related Ecosystem Services

(CCRES)

A GEF / World Bank Regional Project under the programScaling Up Partnership Investments for Sustainable Development of the Large Marine

Ecosystems of East Asia and their Coasts

CCRES Partners• Global Environment Facility• World Bank• The University of Queensland• The University of The Philippines• De La Salle University, Philippines• Cornell University• University of California Davis• Indonesian Universities –(TBC)• WWF-US and WWF-Indonesia• Currie Communications

COREMAPPRDP & WAVESCoastal Resources for Sustainable Development

PROP: Pacific Island Regional Oceanscape Project

&WB Climate Change

Adaptation Strategies

PEMSEA

Project Snapshot

• Region– East Asia-Pacific (Philippines, Indonesia, Pacific Islands)

• Duration– Five years– Effective date: 1 October 2013– Closing date: 30 September 2018

• Current Financing ($10.4m)– Cash: US $4.5 m (GEF) & AUD $2.0 m (UQ)– In-Kind: $3.9 m

• The University of Queensland – Project Executing Agency– Research Partner

Mission:

To engage government and coastal communities in bringing whole-of-system thinking to the design of local

economies founded on a mutually reinforcing relationship between ecosystem health and economic performance

What will CCRES do?

This gives a material rationale for decision-makers to sustain coastal ecosystems and the locally-accrued

benefits that they contribute to human wellbeing and prosperity

What challenge is CCRES addressing?

Discounting the future

Limited understanding of trade-offs

Lack of business acumen and innovation

Challenge:

• In coastal communities, local businesses frequently degrade the natural resources on which they rely

• At the same time, alternative livelihoods schemes rarely succeed in becoming financially self-sustaining, often set up by those with little or no business expertise, making supply-driven products that do not consider demand or market access

• Both problems stem from ignoring the value chain that extends from the natural resource, via the producer, all the way to the end-consumer.

So CCRES:

• Targets Investigations to quantify, model, clarify and map ES role & value and inform local communities (and Government)

• Integrates ES information with business practices---assessed to strengthen those practices & their value chains from the resource base to the consumer

• Targets communication & ownership—seeking +Δ in routine practice & behavior

Natural Capital

Business Enterprises

Local Community and Government

Ecosystem services

Norms, attitudes,

policy

Environmental Impacts ±

Livelihoods,food security

Project Components

Measuring, valuing, mapping

Engaging, persuading,

enabling

Integrating, securing,

monetising

Dissemination & outreach

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Component I

“Quantifying the value and market potential of coral reef and mangrove ecosystem services”

Objective:To provide CCRES technical input on economic,

social, natural and management science

“Measuring, valuing and mapping”

• Targeted Investigations fill information gaps on the roles that ES play in a specific community– Coastal protection– Fisheries– Tourism– Carbon sequestration

Measuring Ecosystem Services

Effect of reef health on fisheries productivity

“What is the value of a management action relative to cost?”

DegradedProductive

Ecosystem Service Benefits:

a) National wealth accounts (alongside other forms of capital, e.g., minerals, human, agriculture)

b) Local stakeholders better understand how a change in ecosystem health affects their daily lives

c) Incorporate value into Marine Spatial Planning to improve benefits to people and reduce conflict

Why value ecosystem services?

Effects of governance on the flow of ecosystem service benefits

“Who gets what, and why?”

Reconciling trade-offs among ecosystem services

“How do we get optimal outcomes for multiple objectives?”

Marine Spatial Planning

CCRESsites

Philippines1. Batangas2. Visayas3. Palawan (north/south)

Indonesia1. Bali2. Selayer3. Wakatobi4. Bird’s Head5. Biak

Pacific?KiribatiSolomons

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Component II

“Forging community-led innovation in capturing and sustaining benefits from

ecosystem service values and enhancing resilience in the face of climate change”

Objective: To provide expertise in business innovation, management science and complex systems

analysis

“Integrating, balancing and securing”

Direct sale

CO2

Supporting services

Regulating services Cultural services

Provisioning services

Complementarity

Component II aims to build business that directly or indirectly utilise

these…

…while reinforcing or maintaining these.

Activities

1. Understand current systems– Current & external businesses– Inventory “eco-businesses”

2. Business development– Assess existing & potential eco-

business for triple bottom line performance

3. Decision Toolkit development

Component III

“Promoting behavioural change through outreach, decision support and regional

learning”

Objective: To provide expertise in communications, value

systems, policy, engagement and outreach

“Engaging, persuading, and enabling”

Integration

• Survey development & application• Values analysis• Social network analysis• Policy and governance impact

Component III

Next Steps• Approved by World Bank Board – September

2013• Start date: 1 October, 2013• Project Operating Manual & Implementation Plan• Procurement call for Implementation team &

appoint team members• Commence implementation

Melanie King, UQ Global Change Institutem.king4@uq.edu.au