ASEF Roundtable on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Asia and Europe
Asia Europe Environment Forum Roundtable on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Asia and Europe
Seventh Roundtable
“The Accounting of Nature: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Asia and Europe”
27-30 June 2009
Hayama, Japan
The Asia-Europe Environment Forum (ENVforum) 7th Roundtable is intended to facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogue from both Asia and Europe and to provide useful inputs to relevant policy processes in the domain of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
It seeks to identify opportunities for bi-regional cooperation in the area of biodiversity and ecosystem services by first discussing the global policy frameworks and market mechanisms that have been developed until today under the UNCBD and other international frameworks and identifying policy and institutional gaps that need to be filled in order to achieve substantial change.
The second part of the roundtable will then focus on 2-3 key ecosystems (marine & freshwater, forests, secondary ecosystem) and their significance for different stakeholders and sectors in Asia and Europe. This part will be conducted as workshops, also linking the contributions of ecosystems to climate change.
The subsequent session will examine potential opportunities for private sector in the ecosystems discussed previously in the workshops. Topics discussed will include increased agro-bio productivity, lifestyle changes and more conscious consumer choices presenting case-studies from eco-tourism and sustainable trade projects, followed by a presentation on voluntary payment schemes for ecosystem services, which will be thoroughly evaluated. This part can also incorporate a presentation on the proposed “green new deal”, identifying strategies and challenges for the evaluation of ecosystem services.
Building on the discussions, the last part will be a summary of recommendations for Asian and European countries derived from the previous sessions combined with an outlook towards to the next UNCBD COP in Japan in 2010 as well as the biodiversity 2010 target.
This roundtable is part of the Asia-Europe Environment Forum series; co-organised by the ASEF, the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF), the Swedish Environmental Secretariat for Asia (SENSA), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This roundtable is hosted by IGES and supported by the Japanese Government.
For more information, please go to http://env.asef.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=30
Related Countries:
Asia in general
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