Biodiversity in development cooperation

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Biodiversity in development cooperation

• Policy responses
• EU Sustainable Development Strategy
• Recognises importance (global) biodiversity
• European Consensus for Development
• Environment and natural resources as focal area
• EU Biodiversity Action Plan (global biodiversity)
• EU Environment Integration Strategy by 2011
• Includes sustainable management of natural
  resources

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Environment integration approach

• Environmental considerations to be systematically
  incorporated in preparation of all strategic
  plans and programmes of EC development
  co-operation, in particular Country Strategy
  Papers.
• In-depth policy analyses on environment and
  natural resources important for cooperation
  dialogue with partner countries.
• Country Environmental Profiles and Strategic
  Environmental Assessments are important tools for
  integrating environment and are to be used
  systematically.
• Coordination and harmonisation within EU and with
  other donors (Aid effectiveness)
• Many opportunities within CSP NIP in rural
  development, governance, economic development
• Necessity to enhance internal communication on EU
  commitments towards Biodiversity Forests

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Environment

• European Development Consensus 2005 Environment
  and sustainable management of natural resources
  can be both considered as a cross-cutting issue
  or focal sector, and developing countries should
  be assisted with MEA objectives
• DCI Thematic Programme on Environment and
  Natural Resources (ENRTP)

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Which financial instruments?

• Environment and natural resource management
  (biodiversity) should preferably be addressed
  through the respective geographical instruments
• European Development Fund (EDF - Cotonou)
• DCI (Development Cooperation Instrument) and ENPI
  (European Neighbourhood Policy).
• Instrument for Stability
• Within EDF, allocations for each country (CSP), 6
  regional (RSP) for 6 ACP regions (4 in Africa
  Caribbean Pacific), and one global (Intra-ACP).

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ENRTP

• DCI basic act (art 13)
• 2007-2013 indicative 804 Mln, increased to
  approx. 1 Bln (2010)
• Biodiversity 2007-2010
• 30.6 mln
• 72 mln promotion of Sustainable Forest
  Management.
• 34 mln FLEGT)
• 6.4 mln fisheries marine/coastal resources
• 6.5 mln ENPI Biodiversity.
• In total, approximately 140 mln 2007-2010 ENRTP

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ENRTP Implementation

• Examples
• Biological corridor Cuba Haiti - DR
• Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative.
• CITES Capacity building
• Call for proposals 2009
• Ecosystems South East Asia
• Invasive Species (OCT SIDS)

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Other major biodiversity projects

• ECOFAC Central African region
• Biodiversity in China
• Parc W West Africa
• Intra ACP 10th EDF Protected Areas and Access
  and Benefit Sharing

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Biodiversity as cross-cutting issue

• Burundi focal area rural development with
  improvement water quality lakes and
  rehabilitation park Ruvubu
• Ethiopia promote conservation, use and national
  and international valorisation of Ethiopian's
  (agro)-biodiversity in all parts of the country
• Benin Technical Assistance to help set up
  financing mechanism for biodiversity
  conservations (parks) and also for accord Benin,
  Burkina Faso and Niger for management Park W

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Important tools

• Country Environmental Profiles overview (/- 40
  pages of environmental issues, and
  recommendations on how these are to be addressed,
  both as cross cutting issue or through concrete
  activities
• Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA)
  upstream assessment of potential impact of
  activities in a sector as a whole (for example
  transport)
• EIA Environmental Impact Assessment at project
  level.

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Next steps

• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
  (TEEB)
• promote a better understanding of the true
  economic value and the benefits arising from
  biodiversity and the ecosystem services it
  provides and of the linkages to poverty issues
• develop tools and policies to properly value
  ecosystem goods and services and to make better
  use of economic incentives for the sustainable
  use of ecosystem services such as through
  market-based instruments
• Climate Change REDD (role forests and
  agriculture for mitigation)
• Review of ENRTP next phase
• More rigorous implementation environment and
  natural resources guidelines

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Guidance

• Environment Integration Guidelines adopted
  (December 2009) preparation of Country
  Environmental Profiles and Environmental
  Assessments,
• more attention to climate adaptation (sector
  notes)

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Information

• http//ec.europa.eu/development/policies/9interven
  tionareas/environment_en.cfm
• http//ec.europa.eu/europeaid/what/environment/ind
  ex_en.htm