Eidgenssisches Departement fr Umwelt Verkehr Energie und Kommunikation

Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation UVEK Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU TEEB From international work to national actions The Swiss Action Plan of the Biodiversity Strategy Nathalie Rizzotti, FOEN TEEB international Workshop, Vilm, 21 -25. 05. 2013

Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation UVEK Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU Content ØTEEB international and related processes ØSwiss Biodiversity Strategy (SBS) ØThe Action Plan SBS and Participatory process ØTEEB in the SBS ØChallenges

TEEB and Switzerland Support the TEEB Secretariat-Donor since 2011 Member from the international coordination group Workshops/conferences (World Wetlands day Geneva) Support and part of the steering committee of TEEB related project (e. g. UNDP Biodiversity Financing Project –BIOFIN) Great interest for TEEB into practice-Phase III (Sectoriel and national) 3

Switzerland support to related processes § Wealth accounting and the valuation of ecosystem services (WAVES) § The natural capital program of International Finance corporation (IFC) § Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) (Colombia, Vietnam) § EEA § ENCA-European Network of Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies/Ecosystem services § DACH (Germany-Austria-Switzerland) Coordination-Collaboration 4

Before the Biodiversity Strategy. Steps towards a TEEB… 2011: Report on Indicators for ecosystem goods and services Ø List of relevant ecosystem services for Switzerland Ø Concrete proposal for operationalization ØIndicators connected to welfare: health, security, natural diversity. Ø Interest in non monetary valorisation to show the importance of environment for social benefits and well being. ØTool: to assess impact of a project on ecosystem services: Oesl-check. ethz. ch (German) 5

Swiss Biodiversity Strategy (SBS) Overall long term objective (Federal Council decision 01. 07. 2009) • “Biodiversity is rich and has the capacity to react to change” • “Biodiversity and its ecosystem services are conserved in the long term” Participative Action plan 6

SBS: 10 Strategic goals 10. Monitoring Biodiversity 1. Encourage Sustainable use 2. Dev. Green infrastructure 3. Enhance survival of species 4. Preserve genetic diversity 5. Review Financial incentives 6. Assess and quantify ecosystem services 7. Strengthen Knowledge 8. Improve the quality in urban contexts 9. Strenghten Internat. 7 engagement

Action Plan SBS Mandate of the Federal Council: Action Plan for the implementation of the SBS with concrete measures to fulfil the strategic goals 10 strategic goals – five areas of action (AB): • I: Sustainable use of biodiversity • II: Promotion of biodiversity • III: Economic values • IV: Creation and distribution of knowledge • V: International engagement The five areas of action are divided into 26 fields of action (HF) 8

Participatory process in fields of action Development of measures 2012 2013 Participatory process within fields of action Analysis of actors and instruments Development of measures Planning of implementation Participatory process at the strategic level 9

Fields of action SBS with potential measures related to TEEB Ø Sustainable use of biodiversity -„Economy“ (FA 1. 9) § TEEB for business § Evaluation of risks and opportunities for business related to ecosystem services (impact, strategy, reporting)-Pilote projects to develop methodology? Ø Economic values- „Assess ecosystem services“ (FA 3. 2) services § Development quantitative assessment (dev. indicators (SEEA), mapping, instruments) § TEEB Switzerland § Coordination of research on ecosystem services (NFP -ES) § Strengthen international work 10

Timetable Action Plan SBS • Until June 2013: Development of the measures within the fields of action • July to December 2013: Planning of the implementation and formulation of the action plan • January to February 2014: Interdepartmental consultation • May 2014: Presentation to Federal Council • 2014 – 2020: Implementation of the action plan SBS 11

Further information BAFU - Biodiversität - Aktionsplan Strategie Biodiversität Schweiz www. bafu. admin. ch/biodiversitaet On-going information about the progress within the action plan and the fields of action: • Project information action plan SBS • Results • Newsletter (French and German) 12

Synergies and challenges International Information Best practices Exchange Motivation National Decisions Initiatives Tools Information Coordination Best practices Communication Exchange Motivation Implementation, Tools adaptation Support to different process (Green Economy action plan) Coordination-synergies-coherence 13

Challenges ØExplain TEEB! ØConcrete standardized methodology to estimate and demonstrate value? ØNatural capital/ ycl. ecosystem services dimension ØEcosystems value- dimension of non used of human? ØSafeguards and reflexion on the message given by economic valuation 14

Thank you for your attention! 15