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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/