Nov 26, 2018 to Nov 27, 2018
3rd Policy Forum on Natural Capital Accounting for Better Decision Making
Working together to improve decision making: Special insights on climate change and biodiversity
Three important international initiatives - each seeking to create enabling environments for better decision making by mainstreaming considerations of natural capital - have joined up to hold a combined meeting, known as Natural Capital Week 2018.
The Policy Forum on Natural Capital Accounting for Better Decision Making is a yearly forum providing countries, international agencies and interested stakeholders a space to discuss the use of the natural capital accounting (NCA) to support policies. The 2017 Forum highlighted the need for building collaboration with the private sector, which is making rapid progress in natural capital accounting and complementary approaches.
The Government Dialogue on Natural Capital provides a platform for governments to explore, understand and strengthen the role of governments and their interaction with the private sector in up-scaling and mainstreaming natural capital approaches.
The Combining Forces Initiative focuses on building synergies between public and private approaches to natural capital with a view of generating trusted and credible information to inform decisions.
During the two-day meeting, participants will share knowledge and experiences to explore how NVA and complementary approaches can contribute to the two key global agendas of climate change and biodiversity. Participants will also focus on how to create an enabling environment for NCA and assessments, through communication, mainstreaming, and exploring how governments and businesses could benefit from collaborating and coordinating efforts in this space.
Read the proceedings and highlights of the 3rd Forum on Natural Capital Accounting for Better Policy Decisions and the feature story
Contributions to the 3rd Policy Forum:
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Natural capital accounting for mainstreaming biodiversity in public policy making - Arjan Ruijs (PBL) and Michael Vardon (ANU). This report provides an overview of current and potential uses of the SEEA natural capital accounts for biodiversity-related policy uses. While there are challenges to the production of biodiversity-related accounts, the work to-date shows that such accounts can be produced - the key task now is to insert biodiversity accounting into the machinery of government.
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Natural capital accounting for mainstreaming climate change in decision making - Arjan Ruijs (PBL) and Cor Graveland (PBL). This report provides an overview of potential and current uses of the SEEA natural capital accounts for policy uses related to climate change. As climate change touches upon almost all areas of society, nearly all natural capital accounts are useful. Therefore, it is important to choose wisely those accounts that can be used for the most urgent policy questions and policies mostly likely to be adopted.
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Combining forces: Priority areas for collaboration - James Spurgeon (Sustain Value) with contributions from Mark Gough (Natural Capital Coaltion), Carl Obst (IDEEA Group), Marta Santamaria (Natural Capital Coalition) and Richard Spencer (ICAEW). The Combining Forces program was established to bring together the public and private sectors' thinking on natural capital accounting. Informed by a consultation exercise involving workshops, webinars, interviews, and a survey trageting key stakeholders from different areas of practice, this document sets out five recommended priority areas for further work on Combing forces.
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Goverment Dialogue on Natural Capital: Summay worksheet2 // Summary Worksheet 3
Agenda:
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Day 1: Monday, November 26, 2018 |
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8.30 am |
Registration |
Tea and coffee |
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9.00 am - 10.30 am |
Session 1. Welcome and opening Facilitator: Steve Bass |
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Opening remarks |
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Setting the scene: Introductory remarks and objectives of the meeting |
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Welcome “Icebreaker” Getting to know our evolving community and its aspirations |
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10.30 am – 11.00 am |
Coffee |
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11.00 am - 12.45 pm |
Session 2. Challenges of improving decisions on climate change Facilitator: Michael Vardon |
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Keynote on the climate change policy challenges |
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| How NCA can be useful to the climate change agenda | ||
| Country presentations on NCA and climate change |
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Group discussion |
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12.45 am – 13.45 pm |
Lunch |
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1.45 pm - 3.00 pm |
Session 3. Climate Change: What natural capital thinking can achieve Facilitators: Michael Vardon and Steve Bass This session will delve into what can natural capital thinking provide to support mainstreaming for climate change mitigation and adaptation in public and private policy making. |
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Group discussion |
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3.15 pm – 3.45 pm |
Afternoon tea |
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3.45 pm - 4.15 pm |
Session 4. Natural capital: Why it matters to countries and how natural capital accounting and complementary approaches can support policy Facilitators: Martin Lok, NL and Oliver Greenfield, Green Economy Coalition This session will discuss a narrative that illustrates the added value of natural capital thinking in both public and private sector. |
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| Presentation of natural capital narrative |
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| Panel discussion |
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Group discussion |
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7:00 pm |
Cocktail and Reception |
Venue: The Netherlands residence Hôtel d’Avaray, 85 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris |
Day 2: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 |
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8.30 am |
Arrival |
Tea and coffee |
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9.00 am - 10.30 am |
Session 5. Challenges of Improving decisions in Biodiversity Facilitator: Steve Bass |
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Keynote on the biodiversity policy challenges |
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| How NCA can be useful to the biodiversity agenda | ||
| Country presentations on NCA and biodiversity | ||
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10.30 am - 11.00 am |
Morning tea |
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11:00 am- 12.45 pm |
Session 6. Biodiversity: What natural capital thinking can achieve Session leads: Arjan Ruis; Facilitator: Steve Bass This session will go further into what can natural capital thinking provide to support mainstreaming for biodiversity use and conservation in public and private policy making. Parallel working groups will share experiences and discuss a few prepared questions. |
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Group discussion |
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12.45 – 13.45 pm |
Lunch |
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1.45 pm - 3.15 pm |
Session 7. Mainstreaming natural capital: Building an enabling environment for NCA and complementary natural capital approaches Facilitators: Mark Gough and Carl Obst This session will discuss private and public sector gaps and synergies in natural capital approaches, strengthening government-business collaboration with the objective to increase uptake by linking national ambitions and global commitments |
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| Presentations from the Combining Forces Initiative | ||
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Group discussion |
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3.15 – 3.45 pm |
Coffee |
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3.45 pm - 5.00 pm |
Session 8. Taking steps to inform policy agendas: Conclusions & next steps Facilitator: Steve Bass |
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| Road to China: Key communications opportunities between now and China CBD COP 2020 |
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| Interventions from countries on planned action on biodiversity leading to China COP |
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| Summary of conclusions on papers on climate change, biodiversity, the narrative, combining forces, and guidelines/SEEA application manual |
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| Closing remarks |
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5.00 pm |
Close of forum |
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