2. 11/12/09 10 th Nov 2009 WILD-9 Merida The Value of Nature : Perspectives from TEEB Pavan Sukhdev Study Leader, TEEB, & Special Adviser & Head - Green Economy, UNEP llllllllllllllll
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5. “ Green GDP”: Losses too large to ignore… Source : GIST’s “Green Accounting for Indian States Project” Monographs # 1, 4, 7, & 8. ( Eg : INDIA : Net Resource Loss Adj’s as % of Gross State Domestic Product ; 2002-03) Natural Infrastructure must be treated the same as Built Infrastructure : Invest in it, Account for Depreciation …. A must for Sustainable Development Natural Resource State Fresh-water Forest Biomass Forest Bio-diversity Forest Eco-Services Capital Loss as % of GSDP Freshwater Quality Timber, Fuel-wood, Carbon storage, NTFP Eco-Tourism, Species WTP, Bio-prospecting, Water storage, Flood control, Topsoil retention Bihar - 5.4 % - 4.7 % - 0.0 % - 0.4 % - 10.5 % Himachal - 9.7 % - 2.0 % - 21.8 % - 7.4 % - 40.9 % Karnataka - 1.7 % +0.1 % - 8.2 % - 2.6 % - 12.4 % Uttar Pradesh - 17.5 % - 0.1 % - 8.7 % - 1.8 % - 28.1 % Goa -17.6 % +0.4 % -20.9 % - 5.1 % - 43.2 %
8. TEEB – “Phase 1” Three Key Messages Economic Size & Welfare Impact of Losses is huge Strong link with Poverty & risk of MDG’s failure Discount rates are ethical choices
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10. TEEB ‘Phase 2’ is FIVE reports.. (“Mainstreaming”) D0 D1 D3 D2 D4 Businesses.. Citizens.. Administrators.. Policy-Makers.. 11/12/09 Ecology & Economics Foundations..
11. 12.11.09 Global Loss of Fisheries… Is there a Solution ? (see TEEB – D1, out in November) We are fishing down the food web to ever smaller species… (Source : Prof. Callum Roberts, University of York) Is there evidence that reserves work ? Reserves all over the world show dramatic increases in spawning stocks
12. Source: Fogarty et al. (2007) Eg : Distribution of fishing effort around Georges Bank closed areas
13. 73% of the United States Haddock catch is now taken within 5km of the closed area boundaries Source: Fogarty et al. (2007)
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15. Tropical Coral Reefs… … can be very valuable : Eco-tourism, hazard defence, food, etc, values of upto $ 1.1 million/ hectare/year ( median about $ 100 K, across 90 examples)
