Patrick ten Brink of IEEP TEEB Implementation at Belgian Presidency event Charleroi 14 Dec 2010

1. TEEB Implementation:
How to implement the results of TEEB (The Economics of
Ecosystems and Biodiversity), especially with regard to
businesses, local players and citizens
Patrick ten Brink
TEEB for Policy Makers Co-ordinator
Head of Brussels Office
Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
Closing the International Year of Biodiversity 2010:
“How to better understand and communicate the socio-economic value of Biodiversity”
A green future and benefits for everyone - Biodiversity and social responsibility
14 December 2010,
Bois du Cazier, Charleroi (Marcinelle) – Belgium
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2. Presentation overview
Part A: TEEB Overview / Evidence Base &
link to the CBD Strategic Plan
Part B: TEEB Implementation / shared
responsibility and communication at
different levels
• Local/regional
• Business
• Citizens
Part C: Next Steps

3. TEEB‟s Genesis and steps, communicating the
global evidence base to different audiences
TEEB “results” / contributions :
• Evidence base and awareness - of urgency/opportunity,
values/costs, solutions - widened audience
•Tools , methods and approaches
• Recommendations for action at all levels
Sweden
Sept. 2009 • Engaged global network (ongoing)
Brussels
13 Nov 2009
London India, Brazil,
July 2009 Belgium,
Japan & SA
TEEB Interim Sept. 2010
Report @ CBD COP-
9, Bonn, May 2008
National
International
Policy Makers
Business
Local and All
regional
authorities / teeb4me
policy makers
Citizens

4. Presentation overview
CBD COP 10 Nagoya: Strategic Plan 2011-20
5 strategic goals & 20 headline targets ….extracts…
Value of biodiversity specific focus of some SP targets
Target 1:… people aware of the values of biodiversity …..
Target 2: …. biodiversity values have been integrated ….into strategies… planning …
national accounting…. reporting systems.
Strategic goal D: Enhance the benefits to all from biodiversity and ecosystem services
Target 14: … ecosystems that provide essential services…. restored and safeguarded
Target 15: … contribution of biodiversity to carbon stocks has been enhanced…
Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of
Benefits Arising from their Utilization;
Evidence on values of biodiversity can also support most other targets
e.g. On sustainable fisheries, agriculture, forestry, sustainable use …
“TEEB implementation” should contribute to the `Strategic Plan realisation`

5. Evidence base - Assessing values and actions
Assessing the value of working with natural capital has helped determine where
ecosystems can provide goods and services at lower cost than by man-made
technological alternatives and where they can lead to significant savings
• USA-NY: Catskills-Delaware watershed for NY: PES/working with nature saves money (~5US$bn)
• New Zealand: Te Papanui Park - water supply to hydropower, Dunedin city, farmers (~$136m)
• Mexico: PSAH to forest owners, aquifer recharge, water quality, deforestation, poverty (~US$303m)
• France & Belgium: Priv. Sector: Vittel (Mineral water) PES & Rochefort (Beer) PES for water quality
•Venezuela: PA helps avoid potential replacement costs of hydro dams (~US$90-$134m over 30yr)
• Vietnam restoring/investing in Mangroves - cheaper than dyke maintenance (~US$: 1m to 7m/yr)
• South Africa: WfW public PES to address IAS, avoids costs and provides jobs (~20,000; 52%♀)
• Germany : peatland restoration: avoidance cost of CO2 ~ 8 to 12 €/t CO2 (0-4 alt. land use)
TEEB implementation: assess where working with nature saves money
– for public (city, region, national), private sector, communities and citizens
& who, with which collaboration/partnerships can make it happen
Sources: various. Mainly in TEEB for National and International Policy Makers, TEEB for local and regional policy and TEEB cases

6. Beneficiaries:
Public sector (e.g. water – national & municipalities),
Public goods (e.g forests, biodiversity, climate),
Private sector (e.g. water, beer, energy, agriculture),
Citizens (e.g. water quantity, quality, price, security) and
Communities (e.g. payments, livelihoods/jobs, ecological assets & “GDP of the poor”)
Decisions: conservation / restoration investment, PES / public programmes, protected areas
Policy synergies: Water – availability/quantity, quality,
Climate - mitigation (green carbon) and (ecosystem based) adaptation to CC
Job creation and livelihoods
Security - natural hazards (e.g. flooding), water, energy
Finances - public sector budget savings (Nat. gov’t, public services, municipalities)
Industrial policy – energy, water, forestry, agriculture...
Consumer affordability
Poverty
and in each case : biodiversity.
TEEB implementation: understand beneficiaries, appreciate synergies – build on both

7. Valuation and policy making:
from valuing natural assets to decisions
Part A: Summary
Assessing the value of nature improves the evidence base for decisions – public
(global, multi-country, national, regional, local), private and community/citizen.
Qualitative, quantitative, spatial and monetary analysis each have a role
Has proven to be useful for investment decisions, permit decisions,
encouraging support (political and public) for action, helped in instrument
choice, design, political and legal launch and implementation.
The whole picture of benefits and costs need
to be appreciated – the here and now, the
over there and over time, the private and
public
As do the range of responsibilities, interests
and opportunities of the players
…is this enough to work out what to do
and achieve results ?
…always better to look at the whole board
and engage the right combination of players for each job

8. Global Issues, Regional solutions:
Assessing value of nature-based CC mitigation
• drainage of 930,000 ha peatlands in Germany for agriculture cause
emissions of 20 Mio. t of CO2-eq. per year
• total damage of these emissions amounts to ~1.4 billion €
• peatland restoration: low cost and biodiversity friendly mitigation option
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern project 2000-2008
• Restoration of 30,000 ha (10%)
• Emission savings of up to 300,000 t CO2-eq.
• CO2 Avoidance cost of 8 to 12 € / t CO2
• if alternative land use options are realized
(extensive grazing, reed production or alder
forest) costs decrease to 0 to 4 € / t CO2
Restored peatland in Trebeltal 2007
Source: Federal Environmental Agency 2007; MLUV MV 2009; Schäfer 2009
Foto: D. Zak, http://www.fv-berlin.de

9. Cities & assessing Multiple Benefits – City of Toronto
• Estimating the value of the Greenbelt for the City of Toronto
• The greenbelt around Toronto offers $ 2.7 billion worth of non-market ecological
services with an average value of $ 3, 571 / ha.
→ Implication re: future management of the greater city area ?
Ecosystem Annual Value
Valuation Benefits (2005, CDN $)
Carbon Values 366 million
Air Protection Values 69 million
Watershed Values 409 million
Pollination Values 360 million
Biodiversity Value 98 million
Recreation Value 95 million
Agricultural Land 329 million
Value
Source: Wilson, S. J. (2008)
Map: http://greenbeltalliance.ca/images/Greebelt_2_update.jpg

10. Regional/local authorities: taking account of public goods in
land use planning, authorisations
US$ Based only on private gain, the “trade- Shrimp Farm
/ha/yr off” choice favours conversion….. Mangroves
$12,392/ha
10000
$9632/ha
After
Adding Storm
Public protection
5000 Benefits
From
mangroves
$1220/ha Fishery
$584/ha nursery
$584/ha
private profits private private
0 profits profits Net of public
less costs of
subsidies restoration
needed
after 5 years
If public wealth is included, the “trade-off”
choice changes completely…..
-ve $11,172/ha
Source: Barbier et al, 2007

11. Presentation overview
What can Business do Today ?
1. Identify impacts & dependence on biodiversity & ecosystem services (BES)
2. Assess the business risks and opportunities associated with these
impacts and dependencies
3. Develop BES information systems, set targets, measure and value
performance, report results
4. Avoid, minimize and mitigate BES risks, using compensation („offsets‟)
where appropriate, based on concept of Net Positive Impact
5. Grasp emerging BES business opportunities, e.g. cost-efficiencies, new
products and new markets
6. Integrate BES actions with wider Corporate Social Responsibility
7. Engage with business peers and other stakeholders to improve BES
guidance and policy
Source: TEEB for Business

12. Presentation overview
Greening Markets… from niches to mainstream
Market (niches) for products & services demonstrating conservation benefits:
products with reduced direct impacts on biodiversity, due to adoption of more
efficient or low-impact production and processing methods
e.g. for reduced impact forestry - FSC, PESC certified timber - Sales of certified „sustainable‟
forest products quadrupled between 2005 and 2007
e.g. for fisheries, MSC certification - From April 2008 to March 2009, the global market for
eco-labeled fish products grew by over 50%, to a retail value of US$ 1.5 billion
e.g. Organic - Global sales of organic food and drink = US$ 46 billion in 2007 (threefold
increase since 1999)
Major consumer brand owners and retailers added „ecologically-friendly‟
attributes to their products: Mars (Rainforest Alliance cocoa); Cadbury (Fairtrade cocoa);
Kraft (Rainforest Alliance Kenco coffee); Unilever (Rainforest Alliance PG Tips).
products/services based on sustainable use of ecosystem services & biodiversity
e.g. ecotourism or biotrade.
Source : Mixed - thanks toJosh Bishop for some facts and figures

13. Presentation overview
Business: Commitments & Walking the talk
Commitments: towards no net loss and net positive impacts
BC Hydro: “long-term goal of no net incremental environmental impact.”
Rio Tinto: “Our goal is to have a „net positive impact‟ on biodiversity.”
Sony: “strives to achieve a zero environmental footprint throughout the lifecycle of
our products and business activities.”
Walmart: “Committed … to permanently conserve at least one acre of priority
wildlife habitat for every developed acre.” ~= no net BD loss
Meeting Commitments
• Identify impacts & dependence on BES;
• assess the business risks and opportunities
• Develop BES info systems, set targets, measure & value performance, report
results
• grasp BES business opportunities, e.g. cost-efficiencies, new products & markets
• Avoid, minimize & mitigate BES risks, using compensation („offsets‟) where
appropriate

14. Presentation overview
Citizens
Direct and indirect impacts on BD and opportunities to act
Consumption: Diet, Energy, transport, appliances, housing, holidays…
Action: address consumption …e.g. lower meat content diet…
Positive action: carbon neutral (trees…), green infrastructure
Getting the messages across to citizens
• TEEBCase collection: http://www.environmentalatlas.net/
• teeb4me website http://bankofnaturalcapital.com/
• MOfilm : Little Things (Laurence Chen), The Invoice (Karen Erbach)
http://www.4shared.com/dir/kmxyk86b/Mofilm.html
• Social media: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TEEB4me , Twitter: http://twitter.com/teeb4me
• and of course, policy instruments: labelling (FSC,PEFC, MSC, Organic, white goods, etc), standards
and law (e.g. wood origin); pricing (e.g. water, CO2), measurement (e.g. footprints), and offsets (e.g. carbon)
and enjoyment (Natura 2000)

15. TEEB Implementation – some post Nagoya steps
Rio+20
TEEB Country & Regional Studies
TEEB Brazil, TEEB India, TEEB NL .. CBD COP11
Awareness raising / Capacity building (developing countries)
Regional workshops (DGENV/Defra) + CBD collaboration re NBSAPs
Initiatives building on TEEB recommendations
SEEA 2012
World Bank/UNEP et al 10+10 initiative on National accounts …
TEEB Integration
Support for business and biodiversity (indicators, valuation reporting)
TEEB for Agriculture; TEEB & Water ….
Science / Economics evidence base
Quantitative assessment, social dimension of BD, valuation, Green
infrastructure, accounting, and links BD & ESS
Parallel track: Similar type work independent of TEEB
Many initiatives that focus on (responding to) the value of nature by range of actors

16. Summary
Appreciating the value of biodiversity and ecosystems is increasingly valuable, if not
essential for decision making:for policy makers (city, regional, national and international), for
business, for citizens. It can help implement the CBD Strategic Plan
• e.g. business - appreciating the value of inputs, oft unpriced, and dependence on these
inputs is essential for business - prices / availability may change.
• Taking account of potential risks and liabilities also key for business – we can expect
greater demands for this, and conversion of damages to real liabilities.
• Committing to no net loss, or net positive gain is key, and then walking the talk
• e.g. local authorities: appreciating public good benefits of green infrastructure / nat. capital
can help in planning, authorisations / permitting, investment decisions
• e.g. citizens: help with purchasing and use choices, investment decisions, activities
TEEB aimed to contribute/communicate an increased evidence base on the value of nature,
share experience on measurement/assessment and on (policy) responses, building on a rich
diversity of valuable initiatives past and present and hopefully encouraging more analysis across
the world and greater action for biodiversity, a shared social responsibility and common
interest.

17. Thank you
TEEB Reports available on http://www.teebweb.org/
& TEEB in Policy Making will come out as an Earthscan book in March 2011
See also www.teeb4me.com
Patrick ten Brink, ptenbrink@ieep.eu
IEEP is an independent, not-for-profit institute dedicated to the analysis, understanding
and promotion of policies for a sustainable environment www.ieep.eu
Manual of EU Environmental Policy:
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/JournalsHome/MEEP/tabid/102319/Default.aspx