Webinar #1 Payment for Ecosystem Services

This webinar will present a global synthesis on Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) for forests, highlighting country experiences, good practices, and implementation challenges. It will provide insights into the conditions and modalities necessary for effective PES implementation, with a focus on how the approach can be replicated in other contexts and how site-level projects can be scaled up to national-level schemes.

The session, along with future webinars in the series, aims to promote the use of economic incentives and support resource mobilization to accelerate the implementation of the United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests (UNSPF) and the achievement of the Global Forest Goals (GFGs).

Programme

Welcoming remarks: Ms. Juliette Biao, Director, UNFF Secretariat (3mins)

Opening Address: Ms. Éliane Ubalijoro, CEO, CIFOR-ICRAF (3mins)

Facilitator: Ms. Cora van Oosten, Director, Capacity Development and Education, CIFOR-ICRAF

Setting the Scene:

• Concept, global status, positioning of PES within the other financing schemes introduced by Ms. Pham Thu Thuy, Flinders University (10 mins)
• Global lessons, challenges, and opportunities of PES by Ms. Beria Leimona, Theme Leader, Climate change, energy and low-carbon development, CIFOR-ICRAF (10 mins)

County case presentations (8 mins each)

• Germany: Ms. Carolin Canessa, Senior Researcher, Chair of Agricultural Production and Resource Economics, Technical University of Munich 
• Indonesia: Mr. Sigit Reliantoro, Deputy, Environmental Governance and Sustainable Natural Resources, Ministry of Environment
• Costa Rica: Ms. Catalina Esquivel Vargas, Forest Engineer, Direction of Environmental Services of the National Forestry Financing Fund of Costa Rica
• South Africa: Mr. Christo Marais, Director, Praxis NR

Q&A Session

Synthesize/summaries of presentations: key messages and lessons-learned by Dr. Beria Leimona (3 mins)

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