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"BUILDING
A SECURE FINANCIAL FUTURE"
WORKSHOP
STREAM 6
Report // Description //
Stream Focus // Programme
// Documents // Short
Courses Related
Finance & Resources
Stream
Focus
/ Approach
This
stream aimed at highlighting the challenges and opportunities
of developing sustainable finance solutions for PAs and PA systems.
Addressing a range of financial arrangements and options for generating
revenue, with emphasis on the development of a business approach
to PA management, participants attended sessions on the policy
context and institutional arrangements for financing PAs, and
on applications of sustainable PA financing. Concurrent break-out
groups addressed: trusts and endowment funds; World Heritage status
as a tool for strengthening sustainable financing mechanisms;
building a complex portfolio to finance MPA networks sustainably;
the role of communities in the sustainable financing of PAs; marketing
PA ecosystem services; tourism-based revenue generation; the role
of private sector partnerships in supporting PAs; forging effective
partnerships with oil and gas companies; conservation incentive
agreements; debt relief and conservation finance; capacity building;
and business planning.
Participants
stressed the need to diversify and stabilize the financial flows
to PAs and biodiversity conservation. They also supported removing
policy and institutional barriers to sustainable financing solutions,
and expanding partnerships. Participants adopted two recommendations,
on financial security for PAs, and on private sector funding for
PAs.
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Description
- Overview & Objective
Protected natural areas are often managed with budgets
that are much smaller than needed to ensure that long-term conservation
objectives are met. These budgets continue to decrease even in
the face of increasing demands on protected areas to provide clean
air and water, tourism and recreational opportunities, in addition
to the protection of biodiversity and the ecosystems processes
that support it.
In this context, the primary objective of the Sustainable Finance
Stream is to present and highlight the challenges and opportunities
of developing sustainable finance solutions for protected areas
and protected area systems. Participants will be introduced to
a wide range of financial arrangements and options for the generation
of revenues. Emphasis will be placed on the development of a business
approach to PA management. Also, policy and institutional considerations
will be discussed as they define the broader environment in which
PA managers and PA system administrators have to operate. Special
attention will be placed on exploring opportunities for forging
strategic alliances with donors and partner organizations.
In keeping with the theme of the World Parks Congress, the Stream
will also look at the benefits protected areas offer to the wider
community. The Stream will consider not only what goods and services
are provided but whether these goods and services are properly
valued and shared. With these as key questions, the Stream will
discuss the challenge of determining what those values are and
how to enhance financial sustainability through economic opportunities
and sustainable use.
The Stream provided the participants with the elements and the
contacts for them to explore opportunities for the development
program and strategies to meet their long-term funding needs and
to overcome the institutional and policy barriers facing them.
The design and implementation of sustainable finance solutions
for protected areas and protected area systems calls for innovation
and creativity. It often requires new ideas and expertise from
other disciplines, outside the protected area and conservation
community. The Stream program bring together experts and practitioners
from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives and Stream participants
to put forth recommendations that address the long-term financial
viability of protected areas and the role they can play enhancing
the economic conditions of communities, nations and regions.
The primary audience for the Stream was the protected area managers,
protected areas system administrators, local and regional conservation
organizations, government agencies, and donor organizations.
The Stream
was organized by the Conservation Finance Program of the Wildlife
Conservation Society on behalf of the Conservation
Finance Alliance (CFA). The CFA is a network of organizations
that works to develop and communicate material on conservation
finance initiatives, and provides training in conservation finance
mechanisms to government officials, NGOs, and protected area managers.
Building
a Secure Financial Future Brief - PDF Document
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Stream
Focus
/ Approach
The Stream begins by
asking a fundamental question. Why is it so difficult to fund
the conservation of protected areas? It was considered answers
to this question in the following context:
| • protected
areas are one of the most important tools for the protection
of biodiversity, a resource that is still undervalued making
it costly to manage and preserve, and that still generates
limited economic benefit to society; |
| • protected
areas are managed under an inadequate national policy framework
that gives preference to short-term solutions for long-term
problems; and |
| • protected
areas are also affected by distorted local, regional and global
market conditions, which drive local economies to exploit
natural resources beyond minimal sustainable thresholds to
remain competitive in the short-term. |
Because
the institutional and policy factors which impact on protected
areas will vary from region to region around the world, the Stream
examinde case studies from places which demonstrate where policy
successes have been achieved and where other approaches tried
have failed. Recognition was also be given to a range of innovative
conservation finance mechanisms. In particular, mechanisms will
be showcased that have proven successful in providing reliable,
long-term sources of expanded funding for on-the-ground conservation
programs. Such long-term funding sources supplement the important,
shortterm grants provided by private foundations and wealthy individuals,
government aid agencies, and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
Some of these sustainable finance mechanisms are now well-proven,
such as: tourism user fees, debt-for-nature swaps, conservation
trust funds, private enterprise partnerships and carbon investment
projects. Others are in the early stages of development and testing,
such as: “green bonds” and other securitized instruments,
ecosystem service payment schemes (e.g., water use fees), “green
insurance” products, resource extraction fees (e.g., on oil/gas
exploration, logging, and mining) dedicated to conservation, and
environmental investment funds that support compatible conservation
enterprises.
The provision of specialized training in the development of business
planning and in economic valuation methods was a feature of the
Stream.
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Programme
Building
a Secure Financial Future
Leads: Carlos E. Quintela & Lee Thomas
Thursday
11 // Friday 12 // Saturday
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Overview
of conservation finance and the policy context for protected
area financing
Introduction to the Sustainable Finance Stream - Carlos
E. Quintela
Panel A: Estimating the
Costs
- The global costs and benefits of conserving wild nature
// Andrew Balmford, University
of Cambridge
- Financing Africa's Protected Areas // John Hanks,
Conservation
International
- Conservation Finance: The Long Road to Sustainability
// Gonzalo Castro, Global
Environment Facility
Panel B: Policy and Management
Approaches
- Distributive Issues Relating to Parks // Philip
Bagnoli, OECD
- Removing Perverse Subsidies that Harm Biodiversity //
Rob Wolcott, WRI
- Using business plans as a management tool for protected
areas internationally // Tom Kiernan, National
Parks Conservation Association
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Keynote
Address and Opening Luncheon
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14:00-17:00
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Workshop
Plenary
Institutional Arrangements for Financing Protected Areas |
Opening
Plenary
Chair: Richard Leakey, Eden Wildlife Trust, Kenya |
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Parallel
Panel A: Government structures for financing protected
area systems
Chair: Murphy Morobe, Financial and Fiscal Commission,
South
Africa National Parks |
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Parallel
Panel B: Donor support for protected area sites
Chair: Marianne Guerin-McManus, Global
Conservation Fund, Conservation International |
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Parallel
Panel C: Private investments to support protected areas
Chair: Pedro Leitão, FUNBIO
and RedLAC,
Brazil |
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Closing
Plenary
Chair: Lorenzo Rosenzweig, FMCN
and RedLAC,
Mexico |
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Applications
of Sustainably Financing Protected Areas: Learning from Concrete
Successes
Opening Remarks:
Sean Southey, UNDP
Equator Initiative
Delfin Ganapin, UNDP/GEF
Small Grants Programme |
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Parallel
Workshop A: Trust and Endowment Funds
Coordinator: Ray Victurine, WCS
Chair: Delfin Ganapin, UNDP/GEF
Small Grants Programme |
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Parallel
Workshop B: World Heritage Status Appeal to Donors:
A Tool to Strengthen Sustainable Financing Mechanisms
Coordinator: Marc Patry, UNESCO
Chair: Martin Hollands, Fauna
& Flora International |
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Parallel
Workshop C: Building a Complex Portfolio to Sustainably
Finance Marine Protected Area Networks
Coordinator and Chair: Scott Smith, The
Nature Conservancy |
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Parallel
Workshop D: Role of Communities in Sustainable Financing
of PAs (Part I)
Coordinator: Sean Southey, UNDP
Equator Initiative
Chair: Charles McNeill,
UNDP |
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Parallel
Workshop E: Marketing the Ecosystem Services of Your
Park
Coordinator and Chair: Joshua Bishop, IUCN |
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Parallel
Workshop F: Tourism-based Revenue Generation
Coordinator: Andy Drumm, The
Nature Conservancy
Chair: Peter Fearnhead, South
Africa National Parks |
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Parallel
Workshop G: Role of Private Sector Partnerships
in Supporting Protecting Areas
Coordinator: Phil Voorhees, National
Parks Conservation Association
Chair: Steve Raney, South
Africa National Parks |
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Parallel
Workshop H: Forging Effective Partnerships with Oil
and Gas Companies for Protected Area Conservation
Coordinator: Ray Victurine, WCS
Chair: John Robinson, WCS |
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Parallel
Workshop I: Conservation Incentive Agreements
Coordinator: Richard Rice, Conservation
International
Chair: Agi Kiss, The
World Bank |
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Parallel
Workshop J: Role of Communities in Sustainable Financing
of PAs (Part II)
Coordinator and Chair: Dermot Smyth, James
Cook University |
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Parallel
Workshop K: Debt Relief and Conservation Finance
Coordinator: Matthias von Bechtolsheim, KfW
Chair: JeanPaul Paddack,
WWF-Madagascar |
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Tools
and Capacity Building- Plenary
Opening Remarks: Carlos E. Quintela, WCS
Conservation Finance Guide: Sheldon Cohen, The
Nature Conservancy
Environmental Funds Financial Planning Tool: Alberto
Paniagua, PROFONANPE
Park Entrace Fee Planning Tool : Andy Drumm, The
Nature Conservancy
Capacity Building Program Overview: Alain Lambert,
Ramsar
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Parallel
Workshop L: Conservation Finance Capacity Building
Program
Co-Chairs: Alain Lambert, Ramsar
& Dan Biller, World
Bank Institute |
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Parallel
Workshop M: Economic Valuation of Protected Areas
Chair: Gunars Platais, The
World Bank |
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Parallel
Workshop N: Business Plans for Protected Areas
Chair: Scott Edwards, National
Parks Conservation Association
Presentations of business planning in Masoala NP, Madagascar;
Golden Gate NP, USA; and Tijuca NP, Brazil. |
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Parallel
Workshop O: Hands-on Training in Conservation Finance
Tools
Chair: Sheldon Cohen, The
Nature Conservancy |
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Regional Case Studies
Chair: Lee Thomas, WCPA
Selected presentations of innovative financing techniques
in Australia, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe,
and South East Asia. |
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Financial
Issues and Tourism (Part II of Sept 12th workshop)
Coordinator: Elizabeth Halpenny, University
of Waterloo
Chair: Paul Eagles, University
of Waterloo |
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Synthesis
Session - Plenary
Chair: Lee Thomas, WCPA
- Stream Overview & Summary
- Stream Recommendations
- Recommendations to the Convention on BioDiversity |
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Documents
Programme
of the Workshop Stream 6: Building
a Secure Financial Future -
PDF Document - 118KB
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Short
courses related to this stream
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Seven
Workshop Streams will be conducted over 3 days
in workshop plenaries and smaller break out groups. Three
important areas have also been identified which cut across
the 7 workshop streams. The Cross
Cutting Themes will be expected to produce specific
Congress outputs. Congress participants who have a special
interest in these themes may follow an interest thread
throughout the programme.There is also a workshop
on Mountains which will be held before the Congress.
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