In the last few years, several WAVES countries have chosen to work on ecosystems accounts. These range from accounts for Southern Palawan in the Philippines, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, and Lake Tota in Colombia.
The Policy and Technical Experts Committee (PTEC), a multidisciplinary body set up under WAVES, helps develop internationally agreed guidelines for ecosystem accounting. In the last week of October, members of the PTEC (see list of members here) met in Washington, D.C. to take stock and plan for the coming year.
Over the next year, PTEC will continue to support testing of methodologies for ecosystem accounting, develop guidelines for compiling ecosystem accounts and collecting evidence on policy use of accounts. There will be increased focus on developing training material, and building capacity in WAVES countries.
WAVES – Policy and Technical Expert Committee
Third Annual Meeting Agenda
October 29-31, 2014, Washington DC
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Wednesday, Oct. 29 |
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Moderator |
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8.30 |
Breakfast |
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9.00 |
Welcome and introductions |
Glenn-Marie Lange, Pushpam Kumar |
Steve Bass |
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9.10 – 9.30 |
Glenn-Marie Lange, Sofia Ahlroth |
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9.30 – 10.30 |
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Overview and focus on ecosystem accounting: Presentation of annotated outline |
Michael Vardon Discussants: Jeff Vincent, Priya Shyamsundar |
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee |
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11.00 – 12.30 |
3. Issues in ecosystem accounting (I): definition and compilation approaches |
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Michael Vardon |
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b. Scaling and integration |
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12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
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4. Issues in ecosystem accounting (II): valuation |
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Kirk Hamilton |
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13.30 – 15.00 |
Valuation in the UK Natural Capital Committee: framework, issues and experiences
Guideline to valuation of regulating ecosystem services in an accounting context (draft report)
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Giles Atkinson
Steve Polasky
Prepared comments: David Simpson |
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15.00-15.30 |
Coffee |
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15.30 – 17.00 |
Issues on valuation, cont. |
Same discussants as above. |
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17.00 |
Cocktail |
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Thursday, Oct. 30 |
Topic |
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Moderator |
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8.30 |
Breakfast |
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5. Issues in ecosystem accounting (III): the case of Philippines |
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9.00 – 9.15 |
Urvashi Narain |
Priya Shyamsundar |
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9.15 – 10.30 |
Ecosystem accounting in Phil-WAVES |
Presentation (60 min) – Gem Castillo, Stefanie Sieber Discussants: Biophysical modelling issues: Ken Bagstad Valuation: David Simpson Integrating with accounts: Juan Pablo Castaneda |
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee |
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11.00-12.30 |
Ecosystem accounting in Phil-WAVES, cont. |
Continuation of the above |
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12.30–13.30 |
Lunch |
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6. Issues in ecosystem accounting (IV): PTEC studies |
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Paulo Nunes |
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13.30- 14.15 |
Mahbubul Alam |
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14.15-15.00 |
Urvashi Narain |
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15.00 – 15.30 |
Coffee |
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7. Country support and capacity building |
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15.30-16.00 |
Development of modular training material for face-to-face and on-line training |
Sonu Jain, Xiaochen Zhang
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16.00 -16.30 |
Julian Chow |
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16.30-17.00 |
Pushpam Kumar |
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Friday, Oct. 31 |
Topic |
Presenter/discussants |
Moderator |
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8.30 |
Breakfast |
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8. EfD/SEPA/PTEC research project on ecosystem accounting |
Jim Boyd |
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9.00 – 10.30 |
Presentation on research project proposal on valuation for ecosystem accounting |
Jessica Alvsilver and Per Strömberg Prepared comments: Francisco Alpizar |
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee |
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11.00 – 12.30 |
9. Policy analysis framework |
Project proposal by Michael Vardon Discussant: Paul van Gardingen |
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12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30 - 14.15 |
Glenn-Marie Jim Boyd |
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14.15 – 14.30 |
WAVES Knowledge platform |
Sonu Jain |
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14.30 – 14.50 |
Conclusions and next steps for training project |
Michael Vardon |
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14.50 – 15.00 |
Wrap-up |
Glenn-Marie Lange |