South-East Asia Workshop
on Payments for Ecosystem Services

Incentives for Improving Economic Policy, Biodiversity Conservation, and Natural Resource Management Target Performance

29 June - 1 July 2009, Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), the Asian Development Bank-Environment Operations Centre (ADB-EOC), the Asia Regional Biodiversity Conservation Program (ARBCP) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) were jointly organizing a workshop to catalyze and support development and application of payment for environmental services as a policy tool for achieving national urban and rural economic development targets.

This workshop, took place during 29 June to 1 July 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand, was proposed to be the first in a series of workshops that will support South-East Asian and other countries to take steps needed to create and/or strengthen PES legal and policy enabling conditions and to learn from each other in the process.

The workshops were implemented to build on and share practical experiences in developing sustainable finance, legal, and policy enabling conditions and mechanisms that will secure and support national and regional economic development targets in ASEAN and the GMS. The series of workshops will also work to 1) identify more specific capacity-building needs for supporting PES enabling policy at the national level, and 2) facilitate and mobilize regional institutions to support countries in addressing these needs.

Workshop overview
The initial workshop raised awareness among high level stakeholders, and linked PES market support and policy enabling conditions to the ability of PES mechanisms to support the achievement of key national policy objectives, identify capacity-building needs and discuss regional support needs and follow-up action.

The workshop itself was based on a strong participatory approach that will support participating country delegates to define requirements and plans as far as possible, including the participation of a wide representation of stakeholders. Follow-up workshops was designed to support participating countries to meet their requirements and plans based on these inputs.

For more information, please visit the ASEAN Center for Biodiversity website or the South-East Asia PES Workshop webpage

Agenda

• Workshop Agenda [PDF: 834KB | 3 pages]

Presentations

1. Setting the stage for the workshop
   1. Purpose, definitions and concepts, opportunities, innovations, challenges of establishing PES markets in Asia - Mr. Jim Peters, ARBCP, Winrock International [PDF: 1.66MB | 17 pages]
2. Examples of ongoing PES Activities
   • PES in Vietnam: [Viet Nam Policy on PFES] [Pilot PES in Lam Dong Province] [Payers of PES in Lam Dong Province] [PES in the Biodiversity Law]
   • PES in Cambodia [PDF: 632KB | 28 pages]
   • PES in Indonesia [PDF: 2.48MB | 26 pages]
   • PES in China [PDF: 315KB | 16 pages]
   • Global examples of PES: [Global Overview] [PES in Costa Rica] [USA experience from Vietnam perspective]
3. PES Valuation and Cost Benefit Analysis
   • Watershed valuation [PDF: 220KB | 18 pages]
   • Carbon offsets: [Indonesia] [Cambodia] [Vietnam]
4. Identifying PES Activities and Justifying their Importance - ADB-EOC
   • Strategic Environmental Assessments at the national and/or provincial level [PDF: 5.55MB | 15 pages]
   • Establishing a PES Mechanism - Elements and Challenges: [PES in Indonesia: PES in Indonesia: Legal Opportunities and Challenges] [Tools and Challenges - Examples from Cambodia]
   • Consolidating PES values through private sector investment in Da Te District: [Alternative Livelihoods for Improved Biodiversity Conservation] [Sustainable Bamboo Farming System] [A Sustainable Bamboo Enterprise]
5. Capacity Building Needs for a Regional Network
   1. Effective Multi-Party Cooperation Model for Developing the Pilot Policy for Payment for Forest Environmental Services in Vietnam [PDF: 344KB | 9 pages]