7th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Barbados Presentation on Capturing Coral Reef & Related Ecosystem Services by Melanie King

3. Source: UNEP

4. Capturing Coral Reef &
Related Ecosystem Services
(CCRES)
A GEF / World Bank Regional Project under the program
Scaling Up Partnership Investments for Sustainable Development of the Large Marine
Ecosystems of East Asia and their Coasts

5. CCRES Partners
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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

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PROP: Pacific Island Regional
Coastal Resources for
COREMAP
PRDP & Development
PEMSEA
Oceanscape Project
Sustainable WAVES
&
WB Climate Change
Adaptation Strategies

7. 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

8. What will CCRES do?
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
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

9. What challenge is CCRES addressing?
Discounting the future
Limited understanding
of trade-offs
Lack of business
acumen and
innovation

10. 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.

11. 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

12. Project Components
C.3
Local Community and
Government
Norms,
attitudes,
policy
Livelihoods,
food security
C.2
Business Enterprises
Dissemination
& outreach
Engaging,
persuading,
enabling
Integrating,
securing,
monetising
Environmental
Impacts ±
C.1
Natural Capital
Ecosystem
services
Measuring,
valuing,
mapping

13. 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

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

15. Ecosystem Service Benefits:
Effect of reef health on fisheries
productivity
“What is the value of a management action relative to cost?”
Productive
Degraded

16. Why value ecosystem services?
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

17. Effects of governance on the flow of
ecosystem service benefits
“Who gets what, and why?”

18. Reconciling trade-offs among
ecosystem services
“How do we get optimal outcomes for multiple objectives?”
Marine Spatial Planning

19. Philippines
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Indonesia
1. Bali
2. Selayer
3. Wakatobi
4. Bird’s Head
5. Biak
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CCRES
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sites
1. Batangas
2. Visayas
3. Palawan (north/south)
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Pacific?
Kiribati
Solomons

20. 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

21. Regulating services
Cultural services
Complementarity
CO2
…while reinforcing or maintaining
these.
Component II aims to build
business that directly or indirectly
utilise these…
Direct sale
Supporting services
Provisioning services

22. Activities
1. Understand current systems
– Current & external businesses
– Inventory “eco-businesses”
2. Business development
– Assess existing & potential ecobusiness for triple bottom line
performance
3. Decision Toolkit development

23. Component III
“Promoting behavioural change through
outreach, decision support and regional
learning”
Objective:
To provide expertise in communications, value
systems, policy, engagement and outreach

24. Component III
Integration
• Survey development & application
• Values analysis
• Social network analysis
• Policy and governance impact

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26. 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

27. Melanie King, UQ Global Change Institute
m.king4@uq.edu.au