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Payment for Ecosystem Services The OAS, through DSD, signed a contribution arrangement with the Canadian International Development Agency for the “Trade and Environment in the Americas” Project.
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. The DSD is identifying innovative private sector partnerships in environment-related financing through the compilation of recent and proposed PES systems, recent trends in nature and conservation swap-payment schemes, and systems, as well as an assessment of the enabling public sector mechanisms required to support such PES systems. This will include the role of land tenure and property rights, fiscal and regulatory systems, and other policies
The project activities reflect priorities identified by countries of the region and will aid them in the development of the capacities needed in the areas of good governance, the sustainable management of natural resources and trade policy decision-making. The objective of these activities is to build the necessary skills and capacities among government, private sector and civil society actors on a sustainable, long-term and people-centered basis. The four clusters of the project are the following:
The project’s geographical scope includes:
Inventory on Payments for Environmental Services
The DSD has launched an Inventory on Payments for Environmental Services. The main objective of the inventory is to catalogue transactions and projects intended to support Payments for Environmental Systems (PES), with an emphasis on those programs underway in the hemisphere of the Americas. More...
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