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Description
Presented by the Conservation Strategy Fund
(CSF)
Context/Background
Globally,
environmental benefits and costs have been omitted from development planning,
primarily due to market failures and a lack of understanding about the
socio-ecological system dependence for sustainable human wellbeing. By better
understanding both these economic externalities, we look at the option to use
market and non-market-based solutions to address environmental degradation at
different space and time scales for a more resilient future for the people of
Africa.
Conservation Strategy
Fund (CSF) is a leader in capacity building on natural capital approaches and
economic development, including natural capital accounting, which has empowered
thousands of alumni from around the planet to put in practice knowledge to
support more sustainable development in their communities. This work has covered
and demonstrated the contribution of ecosystem services to different countries’
economies, thus providing justification for strategic planning around and
investment into maintaining an intact and healthy environment.
The overarching theme
of this webinar is how natural capital accounting can help answer important
policy questions by providing information for economic analyses like
cost-benefit analysis. We will be sharing various African examples by CSF and
others that use the values of flows of natural capital assets to inform decision
making, such as case studies in Uganda related to energy and transportation
infrastructure development (oil pipeline in Murchison Falls, road in Bwindi), in
South Africa related to catchment restoration investments, and in Tanzania
related to values of national park tourism.
Objective
The objective of this
webinar is to provide an understanding of why natural capital has historically
and typically been excluded from economic development planning and investment,
resulting in its degradation and loss. We will then explore how a country’s
natural capital accounting system, when integrated effectively into
environmental economic analysis, can be used to guide decision making and
identify best-case scenarios for investments into sustainable development.
Program Outline:
Chair/Moderator: Mark
Gerrard, CSF Africa Director
Welcome remarks: Peter Katanisa, NCA CoP Coordinator, World
Bank
1- Introductions and
background: Who
CSF is, what we do and our work in Africa.
Speaker: Mark Gerrard, CSF Africa Director
2- Presentation: Integrating natural capital into national
development policies: gaining insights from environmental economics, market
failures and incentives
Speaker: Professor David Johnson
3- Presentation: Case studies of using the values of natural capital
assets to inform decision making in Africa. Discussion to include cases from
Uganda, South Africa and Tanzania on themes such as transportation and energy
infrastructure, ecosystem restoration and tourism.
Speakers: Kim
Bonine, CSF Training Director and Ronald Kaggwa, Uganda National Planning
Authority, Head of Department: Production, Trade and Tourism Planning
4- Open Q&A with the
audience
Contact: Mark Gerrard
at
mark@conservation-strategy.org |