protected areas for the 21st century: lessons from undp /gef’s portfolio
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Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Nik Sekhran, Principal Technical Adviser for Biodiversity
Protected Areas for the 21st Century: Lessons from UNDP/GEF’s Portfolio
- side event – Nagoya CBD COP, 21st October 2010
Kure National Park, Turkey
Yannick Glemarec, UNDP/GEF Executive Coordinator
Adriana Dinu, Regional Environment and Energy Practice Leader
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Overview of the Side Event
Welcome statement
Organizational Perspectives
Perspectives from the Government Agencies
Questions and Answers
Closing
Nalichevo Park, Kamchatka
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Emerging drivers of change influencing protected area policy and funding
Climate change
Millennium Development Goals
Recognition of Earth’s finite resources
Recognition of the value of ecosystems
Global financial crisis
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
As a results, society’s views toward protected areas are changing
Managed primarily for recreation and biodiversity
Viewed as global life-support systems
FROM TO
Puffin Island, Comandorsky zapovednik, Russia
Planned by governments Planned by many sectors
Financed by taxes and government allocations
Financed by many mechanisms including ecosystem services
Managed primarily for resilience, ecosystem services
Managed as part of landscape-level land-use plan
Managed as islands, separate from landscape
Viewed as refuge for biodiversity
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
8 Key Themes and 28 best practices
Enabling policy environment
Management planning, research, monitoring
Protected Areas threats and threat assessment
Protected Areas Governance
Protected Area Capacity
Sustainable finance
Networks and ecological gap assessments
Connectivity Corridors and transboundary PAsComandorsky zapovednik, Russia
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
4 Possible Scenarios
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
UNDP’S WORK IN PROTECTED AREAS
Putoransky reserve, Russia
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
UNDP’s Biodiversity ProgrammeObjective:
Governments, communities and other stakeholders maintain and enhance the
beneficial services provided by ecosystems and natural resources, in order to secure
livelihoods, food, water and health, reduce vulnerability to climate change, store carbon and avoid emissions from land use change
Unleash the economic potential of Protected Area systems so they
are effectively managed, sustainably
financed and contribute towards sustainable
development
Mainstream biodiversity conservation objectives
into economic sector activities, to ensure
production processes maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services that sustain human welfare
Ecosystem based adaptation and mitigation
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
UNDP/GEF has supported
$366 million from the GEF
In 778 protected areas
In 55 countries
In just the past 6 years
Covering nearly every goal, target and action of the CBD Programme of Work
on Protected Areas
Chobe National Park, Botswana
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
100 million ha of protected areas2004 - 2010
128 New Protected Areas Established:11.1 million ha
197 Protected Areas Being Established:4.2 million ha
453 Existing Protected Areas Strengthened:85.2 million ha
Krono,tsky Biosphere Reserve, Russia
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Protected areas are vitally important
For drinking water
For poverty alleviation and subsistence
For agriculture
For carbon sequestration
For disaster mitigation
For biodiversity conservation
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Example: Tanzania: Water yield
Overlap between protected areas and water yield
clearly shows the value of protected areas compared with other lands
Water Yield
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Water YieldExample from Tanzania:
carbon storage
The carbon storage in protected areas is up to 155 tons per hectare,
compared to 80 tons per hectare for unprotected
land, and 35 percent of the carbon is stored within
protected areas.
Carbon Storage in Forests
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Komi Republic, Russia: Carbon storage
1.63 mln ha of virgin boreal carbon pools unprotected
In natural state: they build up 2.8 mln tC/y
Without protection: they lose 135,000 tC/y to fires and logging
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Combining and sequencing sources of funding to achieve multiple benefits
Long-term solution:Conservation of the biodiversity of Komi’s boreal forests and peatlands
through strengthening protected area system
Forest Committee
Local Authorities
Ministry of Natural
Resources
Komi Republic
Institute of Biology
Academia
Severgasprom
LUKOIL
Private sector
Ministry of Natural
Resources
Russian Federation
PA network covers unrepresented ecosystems, is effectively managed and
financially sustainable.
PA network covers key carbon pools, contributes to avoiding emissions from forest fires and is adapted to climate change
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
CONCLUSIONS
Krka National Park, Croatia
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Protected areas should do more socially
Sustain local livelihoods
Help reduce poverty
Contribute to human development
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Protected areas should do more ecologically
Improve landscape resilience to climate change impacts
Enable human and natural communities to adapt to climate change impacts
Help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon
Ergaki Park, Russia
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Protected areas should do more economically
Maintain key ecosystems services and contribute to local and national economies
Water
Agriculture
Tourism
Disaster mitigation
Kruger National Park, South Africa
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Synergies and Tradeoffs
In managing for multiple benefits, there will be many synergies and trade-offs to consider:
Managing for biodiversity conservation
Managing for climate adaptation and mitigation
Managing for sustainable livelihoods
Managing for ecosystem services
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Some guiding principles in assessing synergies and trade-offs
Apply the precautionary principle
Be explicit and transparent about trade-offs and synergies
Develop resilience-based thresholds
Develop management triggers and safeguards
Focus on areas with the greatest synergies and least trade-offs
Ergaki Park, Altai Sayan Russia
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
Next steps
Increased financial commitment, strong leadership and political will
Integrate sectoral planning with protected areas, and focus on landscape-scale resilience
Understand and communicate the true value of protected areas
Kure National Park, Turkey
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
This new book provides
guidance to countries on
how to design, manage and
finance protected areas
to meet the coming
challenges.
Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.
THANK YOU!!!Planned Tugai Biosphere reserve, Uzbekistan
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