Protected Areas for the 21st Century , Nagoya, 21st October 2010.

Nik Sekhran, Principal Technical Adviser for Biodiversity

Protected Areas for the 21st Century: Lessons from UNDP/GEF’s Portfolio

- side event – Nagoya CBD COP, 21st October 2010

Kure National Park, Turkey

Yannick Glemarec, UNDP/GEF Executive Coordinator

Adriana Dinu, Regional Environment and Energy Practice Leader

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Overview of the Side Event

Welcome statement

Organizational Perspectives

Perspectives from the Government Agencies

Questions and Answers

Closing

Nalichevo Park, Kamchatka

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Emerging drivers of change influencing protected area policy and funding

Climate change

Millennium Development Goals

Recognition of Earth’s finite resources

Recognition of the value of ecosystems

Global financial crisis

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As a results, society’s views toward protected areas are changing

Managed primarily for recreation and biodiversity

Viewed as global life-support systems

FROM TO

Puffin Island, Comandorsky zapovednik, Russia

Planned by governments Planned by many sectors

Financed by taxes and government allocations

Financed by many mechanisms including ecosystem services

Managed primarily for resilience, ecosystem services

Managed as part of landscape-level land-use plan

Managed as islands, separate from landscape

Viewed as refuge for biodiversity

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8 Key Themes and 28 best practices

Enabling policy environment

Management planning, research, monitoring

Protected Areas threats and threat assessment

Protected Areas Governance

Protected Area Capacity

Sustainable finance

Networks and ecological gap assessments

Connectivity Corridors and transboundary PAsComandorsky zapovednik, Russia

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4 Possible Scenarios

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UNDP’S WORK IN PROTECTED AREAS

Putoransky reserve, Russia

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UNDP’s Biodiversity ProgrammeObjective:

Governments, communities and other stakeholders maintain and enhance the

beneficial services provided by ecosystems and natural resources, in order to secure

livelihoods, food, water and health, reduce vulnerability to climate change, store carbon and avoid emissions from land use change

Unleash the economic potential of Protected Area systems so they

are effectively managed, sustainably

financed and contribute towards sustainable

development

Mainstream biodiversity conservation objectives

into economic sector activities, to ensure

production processes maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services that sustain human welfare

Ecosystem based adaptation and mitigation

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UNDP/GEF has supported

$366 million from the GEF

In 778 protected areas

In 55 countries

In just the past 6 years

Covering nearly every goal, target and action of the CBD Programme of Work

on Protected Areas

Chobe National Park, Botswana

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100 million ha of protected areas2004 - 2010

128 New Protected Areas Established:11.1 million ha

197 Protected Areas Being Established:4.2 million ha

453 Existing Protected Areas Strengthened:85.2 million ha

Krono,tsky Biosphere Reserve, Russia

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Protected areas are vitally important

For drinking water

For poverty alleviation and subsistence

For agriculture

For carbon sequestration

For disaster mitigation

For biodiversity conservation

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Example: Tanzania: Water yield

Overlap between protected areas and water yield

clearly shows the value of protected areas compared with other lands

Water Yield

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Water YieldExample from Tanzania:

carbon storage

The carbon storage in protected areas is up to 155 tons per hectare,

compared to 80 tons per hectare for unprotected

land, and 35 percent of the carbon is stored within

protected areas.

Carbon Storage in Forests

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Komi Republic, Russia: Carbon storage

1.63 mln ha of virgin boreal carbon pools unprotected

In natural state: they build up 2.8 mln tC/y

Without protection: they lose 135,000 tC/y to fires and logging

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Combining and sequencing sources of funding to achieve multiple benefits

Long-term solution:Conservation of the biodiversity of Komi’s boreal forests and peatlands

through strengthening protected area system

Forest Committee

Local Authorities

Ministry of Natural

Resources

Komi Republic

Institute of Biology

Academia

Severgasprom

LUKOIL

Private sector

Ministry of Natural

Resources

Russian Federation

PA network covers unrepresented ecosystems, is effectively managed and

financially sustainable.

PA network covers key carbon pools, contributes to avoiding emissions from forest fires and is adapted to climate change

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CONCLUSIONS

Krka National Park, Croatia

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Protected areas should do more socially

Sustain local livelihoods

Help reduce poverty

Contribute to human development

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Protected areas should do more ecologically

Improve landscape resilience to climate change impacts

Enable human and natural communities to adapt to climate change impacts

Help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon

Ergaki Park, Russia

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Protected areas should do more economically

Maintain key ecosystems services and contribute to local and national economies

Water

Agriculture

Tourism

Disaster mitigation

Kruger National Park, South Africa

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Synergies and Tradeoffs

In managing for multiple benefits, there will be many synergies and trade-offs to consider:

Managing for biodiversity conservation

Managing for climate adaptation and mitigation

Managing for sustainable livelihoods

Managing for ecosystem services

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Some guiding principles in assessing synergies and trade-offs

Apply the precautionary principle

Be explicit and transparent about trade-offs and synergies

Develop resilience-based thresholds

Develop management triggers and safeguards

Focus on areas with the greatest synergies and least trade-offs

Ergaki Park, Altai Sayan Russia

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Next steps

Increased financial commitment, strong leadership and political will

Integrate sectoral planning with protected areas, and focus on landscape-scale resilience

Understand and communicate the true value of protected areas

Kure National Park, Turkey

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This new book provides

guidance to countries on

how to design, manage and

finance protected areas

to meet the coming

challenges.

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THANK YOU!!!Planned Tugai Biosphere reserve, Uzbekistan