Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation UVEK

Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU

TEEB From international work to national

actionsThe Swiss Action Plan of the

Biodiversity Strategy

Nathalie Rizzotti, FOEN

TEEB international Workshop, Vilm, 21-25.05.2013

Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation UVEK

Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU

Content

TEEB international and related processesSwiss Biodiversity Strategy (SBS)The Action Plan SBS and Participatory processTEEB in the SBSChallenges

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TEEB and Switzerland

Great interest for TEEB into practice-Phase III(Sectoriel and national)

Support the TEEB Secretariat-Donor since 2011 Member from the international coordination groupWorkshops/conferences (World Wetlands day Geneva)Support and part of the steering committee of TEEB related project (e.g. UNDP Biodiversity Financing Project –BIOFIN)

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Switzerland support to related processes

Wealth accounting and the valuation of ecosystem services (WAVES) The natural capital program of International Finance corporation (IFC) Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)(Colombia, Vietnam)

EEA ENCA-European Network of Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies/Ecosystem services DACH (Germany-Austria-Switzerland)

Coordination-Collaboration

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Before the Biodiversity Strategy-Steps towards a TEEB…

2011: Report on Indicators for ecosystem goods and services

List of relevant ecosystem services for Switzerland Concrete proposal for operationalization

Indicators connected to welfare: health, security, natural diversity.

Interest in non monetary valorisation to show the importance of environment for social benefits and well being.  Tool: to assess impact of a project on ecosystem services: Oesl-check.ethz.ch (German)

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Swiss Biodiversity Strategy (SBS)

Overall long term objective (Federal Council decision 01.07.2009)

•“Biodiversity is rich and has the capacity to react to change”•“Biodiversity and its ecosystem services are conserved in the long term”

Participative Action plan

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1.Encourage Sustainable use

4.Preserve genetic diversity

7.Strengthen Knowledge

2.Dev. Green infrastructure

3.Enhance survival of species

5.Review Financial incentives

6.Assess and quantify ecosystem services

8.Improve the quality in urban contexts

9.Strenghten Internat. engagement

SBS: 10 Strategic goals

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Action Plan SBS Mandate of the Federal Council:

Action Plan for the implementation of the SBS with concrete measures to fulfil the strategic goals

10 strategic goals – five areas of action (AB):

• I: Sustainable use of biodiversity

• II: Promotion of biodiversity

• III: Economic values

• IV: Creation and distribution of knowledge

• V: International engagement

The five areas of action are divided into 26 fields of action (HF)

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Development of measures

2012 2013

Participatory process at the strategic level

Analysis of actors and instruments

Development of measures

Planning of implementation

Participatory process within fields of action

Participatory process in fields of action

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Fields of action SBS with potential measures related to TEEB

Sustainable use of biodiversity -„Economy“ (FA1.9)

TEEB for business Evaluation of risks and opportunities for business related to ecosystem

services (impact, strategy, reporting)-Pilote projects to develop methodology?

Economic values- „Assess ecosystem services“ (FA3.2)

services

Development quantitative assessment (dev.indicators (SEEA), mapping, instruments)

TEEB Switzerland Coordination of research on ecosystem services (NFP -ES) Strengthen international work

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• Until June 2013: Development of the measures within the fields of action

• July to December 2013: Planning of the implementation and formulation of the action plan

• January to February 2014: Interdepartmental consultation

• May 2014: Presentation to Federal Council

• 2014 – 2020: Implementation of the action plan SBS

Timetable Action Plan SBS

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Further information

BAFU - Biodiversität - Aktionsplan Strategie Biodiversität Schweiz

www.bafu.admin.ch/biodiversitaet

On-going information about the progress within the action plan and the fields of action:

• Project information action plan SBS

• Results• Newsletter (French and German)

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Synergies and challenges

DecisionsInitiativesTools

Implementation,Tools adaptationSupport to different process (Green Economy action plan)

InformationBest practicesExchangeMotivation

InformationBest practicesExchangeMotivation

Coordination-synergies-coherence

CoordinationCommunication

International

National

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Challenges

Explain TEEB!

Concrete standardized methodology to estimate and demonstrate value?

Natural capital/ ycl. ecosystem services dimension

Ecosystems value- dimension of non used of human?

Safeguards and reflexion on the message given by economic valuation

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Thank you for your attention!