Eureca – European Ecosystem AssessmentProposal 3 March 2008

MA follow-up• Strategic goals

• Improving the knowledge base regarding ecosystem functioning and services

• Developing and applying tools for political decision making at European level

• Outreach to stakeholders• Priorities for sub-global assessments

• Significant ecosystem degradation or risk of future degradation • Demand from the country or region concerned• Opportunities to influence a decision-making process • Link to ongoing initiatives for environmental integration into

policies• Committed leader

• EURECA aims at getting formally acknowledged as SGA

Expert meeting 28/29 January• Involve stakeholders as early as possible• Add value to country initiatives• Preference for storyline-based approach with

biodiversity areas (option 1) or selected ecosystem services (option 2)as starting point)

• Yet comprehensiveness needed (not only focus on certain ecosystems)

Approach• Storyline-based assessment• Integrated accounting framework (long-term)• Capacity building

Methods

‘Economic valuation techniques will be combined with dedicated scenario development and ecosystem accounting. The scenarios will describe alternative pathways into the future, leading to alternative uses of the selected ecosystem resources. The economic assessment will, on the basis of case studies, analyse the costs and benefits of the different use options provided by the scenarios. Ecosystem accounting will finally provide a spatial framework to extrapolate the case study findings to the European level and enable calculation of economic consequences of land use change (and alternative use of ecosystem resources). Models will play a synthesizing and integrative role throughout the eureca process, complementing the data collection, supporting the scenarios building and enhancing the valuation/accounting.’

EURECA project plan draft 18-12-2007 / background doc expert meeting January 2008

Methods (2)ecological analysisindicator-based (e.g. SEBI)

distribution and trends of habitats and speciesthreats / pressures

ecosystem resilience scenario developmentalternative pathways into the future

DPSIR modelling spatially explicit output (distribution habitats /

species)economic valuation(NB: per scenario)

identification of relevant ecosystem services value of marketed and non-marketed services

costs of relevant policy measurescost-benefit analysis under discounting over the

scenario period. ecosystem accountingstocks (land cover units, species)

flows of related ecosystem servicesmodelling economic parameters (upscaling /

benefit transfer)

Modular setup• Pathfinder

• Europe-wide background picture• Status and trends of European biodiversity (SEBI-based)• Pathways into the future (scenarios, prospective study)• Methods handbook / matrix of ecosystems and services• No integral economic valuation of change!

• Spotmeters• Zooming in on areas/services of interest• Analysing consequences of context changes (on basis of

scenarios)• Exploring resilience• Exploring policy options• Assessing economic costs and benefits

• Integrator • Overall assessment / conclusion

Storyline based assessmentSpotmeters• Food for Thought  Food, fuel and the fate of the landscape • Fish Behind the Net Exploiting the marine environment • Natura2morrow Significance and robustness of the Natura2000

network • Peak performance Mountain ecosystems under pressure

• Breaking the waves Biodiversity and flood prevention (scheduled to start 2009)

Internal process

PathfinderSpotmeter

Spotmeter

Spotmeter

Spotmeter

Spotmeter

Accounting

Integral accounting

(selected services)

Partial story-line based analysis

(selected issues / regions)

Integrator

CORINE

SEBI

Stakeholder process

Pathfinder framework

Vulnerability maps

Status and trends

Methodology guideline

Scenarios

Storyline development

Biodiversity assessment

Spotmeter development

Economic valuation

Policy options

Integrator

Synthesis

Recommendations

Conclusions

Stakeholders

SEBI

Countries

Topic stakeholders

countriesReachout event Reachout eventStartup event

Timetable 2008-20132008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Biodiversity Comm.

2nd progress report

4th pr. rep. 2010 eval.

7th pr. report 6th EAP eval.

Marine strat.

Entry into force

Initial assessment

CFP Revision

WFD River basin rep.

CAP Health Check

Commission proposal

Reg. policy Ex post eval. ProposalNatura2000

Art. 17 reporting

Possible guideline art.10 coherence

Poss. revision HD / BD

Climate change

Communication on adaptation

Bioenergy Sust. criteriaCohesion Green paperBudget rev.

Budget ’14-’20

Alp./Carp. C

Pathfinder Integrator

Food for ThoughtBraking the waves

Fish behind the Net

Natura2morrow

Peak Performance

SEBI report

SoER

CC rep.Biofuels rep.

CAP report

Links to MA follow-up strategy• Improving the knowledge base regarding ecosystem

functioning and services • SEBI integration, Country contributions

• Developing and applying tools for political decision making at European level • Close link to main policy frameworks and

timetable (CAP, CFP, Energy, WFD, BAP)• Outreach to stakeholders

• Spotmeter storylines as basis for outreach, can be combined with audiovisuals