🗓️ 3-11 SEPTEMBER 2021 |
Register for in-personRegister for virtual |
Market approaches that create economic incentives have been widely used to encourage positive outcomes for nature conservation. Such approaches include natural capital accounting to quantify benefits from natural systems; valuing biodiversity and ecosystem services; and encouraging the financial sector to invest in natural systems in order to generate financial returns.
Ecosystem accounting and market driven approaches have proved useful in enabling the public and private sectors to more accurately recognise impacts on nature and promote positive conservation outcomes. However, these approaches are not without challenges, including accounting for social values, influencing public policy and priorities, and securing sustainability. How can the use of ecosystem accounting and economic valuation methods be mainstreamed to better understand the drivers of biodiversity loss? How can economic analyses be more effectively integrated into policy and decision-making at the national level? And, what are its implications for livelihoods, employment, development and governance?
Mobilising conservation finance remains a challenge, despite the growing consensus of the need to close the current financial gap, both for climate and nature. How do we shift from construing nature conservation as a cost to framing it as an investment in a sustainable future? How do we change the way in which we measure economic returns? How can investments from the private sector in key ecological systems be enhanced? How do we ensure improved access to financial resources for conservation efforts at all governance levels? Also, how can environmental and social safeguards used by the financial sector be improved to advance nature conservation and protect the rights of indigenous people and local communities?
Related content
Related sessions
Date | Room | Title | Features | Session type | Themes | Favourite |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sunday 05 Sep 13:30 - 15:30 |
Virtual Channel 7 | Investments in natural capital, how to effectively achieve SDGs? A timely training for islands! |
en |
Campus Session |
Landscapes Economic and financial systems |
|
Sunday 05 Sep 17:00 - 17:45 |
H3 – Reimagine | Discuss: Dangers and Impacts of the Carbon Market on Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Communities |
en |
Exhibition Event |
Climate change Rights and governance Economic and financial systems |
|
Monday 06 Sep 12:30 - 13:30 |
H8 - 10 Alpilles | How can business contribute to a nature-positive world? |
fr |
Thematic Stream Session |
Landscapes Economic and financial systems Knowledge, innovation and technology |
|
An Economic Case for Protecting our Planet |
en |
Speaker Pitch |
Landscapes Economic and financial systems |
|||
Sunday 05 Sep 16:00 - 17:30 |
H8 - 5 Mer de Corail | Addressing the Emerging Post 2020 Priorities in the Africa's Protected Areas Congress (APAC) |
en |
Thematic Stream Session |
Landscapes Rights and governance Economic and financial systems |