The DSD launches the publication:
"Legal Institutional Frameworks for Payment for Ecosystem Services: Eight country Analysis"
Washington D.C, June 19, 2009

The Department of Sustainable Development of the OAS launches the publication “Legal Institutional Frameworks for Payment for Ecosystem Services: Eight Country Analysis”. This book examines trends, lessons and experiences that have been developed in the region, as well as the contribution of legal frameworks in facilitating the implementation of Payment for Ecosystem Services

In addition to the legal analysis, the publication includes an institutional and economic review, identifying methodologies used to develop PES transactions. Furthermore, this book presents best practices for PES implementation and the inputs that currently underpin the legal and institutional frameworks of this mechanism in eight Member States: Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru.

This publication is part of a DSD effort to contribute trends in alternative, innovative, and market-based approaches to address natural resource management, environmental protection and biodiversity conservation among member countries.

Payment for Ecosystem Services

To respond to trade-related capacity building development needs in the area of environmental management, the DSD is working towards improving market-based approaches to the conservation of biological diversity, through the support of Payment for Ecological Service Payments (PES). Innovative financial instruments for conservation including Payment for Ecological Services (PES) are increasingly used as tools to implement conservation policies at the national level. Payment for Ecosystem Services Database

The Department of Sustainable Development (DSD) supports OAS member States in the design and implementation of policies, programs and projects oriented to integrate environmental priorities with poverty alleviation, and socio-economic development goals. Translating sustainable development and environmental protection goals into concrete actions, DSD supports the execution of multiple-country projects in such diverse areas as integrated water management, renewable energy, natural Hazards-climate change adaptation and land use planning, biological diversity and environmental law and policy. The Department also supports transparency and Public Participation, as practical ingredients of good governance. More...

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► July 2, 2009. St. Kitts and Nevis. Government stakeholder consultation to setting the legal framework

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