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True-cost accounting in food and farming
Policy mechanisms discussion – developing the potential for Payments for Ecosystem Services
Helen Dunn, Senior Economic Adviser, Defra5th December 2013
What does PES look like?
Graphic © Forest Trends
Land or resource managers
Service beneficiaries
Services
Payments
“Green infra structure as a substitute for or complement to traditional engineered approaches is gaining currency in the developed world .” State of watersheds payments, Ecosystem marketplace report
Developing the potential for PES...
Defra PES pilot fund projects
Aims of pilot projects to develop proof of concept, help build capacity & spread good practice
Trialling different contexts for applying PES to water South West Water pilot & implementation of a reverse auction
approach for diffuse pollution (Fowey river improvement auction)
Feasibility of a nitrogen PES scheme in the Poole Harbour Applying PES in context of sewage treatment works/integrated
constructed wetland Upper Thames Cotswold pilot – exploring PES opportunities
relating to pesticide use, grasslands & AD, flood storage
Development and launch of a pilot peatland code
Thank you.
For further information:
PES action plan and best practice guide:
https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/
protecting-biodiversity-and-ecosystems-at-home-
and-abroad/supporting-pages/valuing-the-
benefits-we-get-from-nature
PES pilot research projects:
https://www.gov.uk/ecosystems-services
http://ekn.defra.gov.uk/resources/programmes/
pes-pilots/