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Engaging business in Nature-based Solutions:

A BioBiz Exchange webinar

27 June 2019

Host: Nadine McCormick,

IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity

Programme

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Agenda

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• Welcome and introduction with Nadine McCormick, IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme

• NBS Standard overview with IUCN’s Daisy Hessenberger

• Case study: The Upper Tana-Nairobi Water Fund with David Schaub-Jones from The Nature Conservancy

• Case study: How shrimp farmers are saving thousands of miles of mangroves in Vietnam with IUCN’s Jake Brunner

• Q&A with presenters and participants

• Closing remarks and feedback

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Nature-based Solutions: not just another standard

Daisy Hessenberger

Nature-based Solutions Professional

Ecosystem Management Programme

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We are facing complex challenges

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The population currently affected

by land degradation/desertification

and drought is estimated at 1.8

billion people

– UN Water

Floods caused by rising sea levels

could cost as much as $14 trillion if we

fail to keep global warming below 2°C.

- Jevrejeva et al, 2018

Over 2/3 of world

population will live in

urban areas by 2050

– UN DESA

Considering Nature-based Solutions

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Actions to protect, manage and

restore natural or modified

ecosystems, which address

societal challenges, effectively and

adaptively, providing human well-

being and biodiversity benefits.

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We are facing complex challenges

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…agricultural production could be

increased by about 20% worldwide

if greener water management

practices were used...

– UN Water

Mangroves can reduce annual flooding

for more than 18 million people globally

– Waves Partnership

urban green spaces have been

shown to increase property

values by 5 to 15 percent

– World Bank

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Crowd sourcing how to make Nature-based Solutions user friendly

- Daisy Hessenberger

Nature-based Solutions Professional

Ecosystem Management Programme

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What we thought

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Not just to ensure quality, an NbS standard is

needed to:

1. Safeguard nature from overexploitation

2. Engage stakeholders

3. Build common language and understanding

4. Increase demand

5. Incentivize positive sustainable change

A year long process so far

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External consultation x2

First pilot applications

Publications & outreach

Launch at IUCN Conservation Congress

Map IUCN principles to NbS tools

Draft criteria & indicators

Internal IUCN consultation

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What is your need?

Leave no one behind?

Stakeholder engagement?

Replication of internal?

Exhaustive list of tools?

List of potential pilots?

Potential barriers?

Added value of crowd sourcing

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What we learnt

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1. Know who you are talking to

2. Start with their challenge

3. Emphasize unique selling points of NbS

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A global standard for you and for business

- Daisy Hessenberger

Nature-based Solutions Professional

Ecosystem Management Programme

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How to use the standard

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Nine criteria:

1. Solutions

2. Biodiversity

3. Governance

4. Adaptive management

5. Multiple benefits

6. Scale

7. Complementarity

8. Policy etc

9. Economics & Finance

How to use the standard development

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Take part in IUCN public consultation (July 2019)

Engage new stakeholders

Set up a pilot (past, current or future interventions)

Email nbsstandard@iucn.org with questions and feedback

Thank you for your attention

daisy.hessenberger@iucn.org

@IUCN_Ecosystem

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Engaging business to invest in NbS for water security: the Upper Tana-Nairobi Water Fund

• Context

– The Upper Tana River supplies 95% of Nairobi’s water supply, 65% of Kenya’s hydropower,

covering 4 million residents in Nairobi and 5 million living in the watershed.

– Soil from 300,000 small-scale farms was washing into the river and its tributaries, while riparian irrigation expands, disrupting water supply, reducing farm productivity and harming ecosystem health.

• What did we do?

– TNC worked with partners to create a Water Fund that designs and enhances financial and governance mechanisms, uniting public, private and civil society stakeholders around a common goal to contribute to water security.

– The Water Fund balances upstream and downstream interests by providing incentives to protect watershed services.

• What happened? (the change/impact)

– 27 million more litres of water flowing into Nairobi each day; over 50% reduction in sediment concentration in rivers.

– Increased revenue of KenGen (>US$600,000 pa), resulting in more power generation, less shutdowns & spillages; and more cost savings for Nairobi City Water & Sewerage Company ($250,000 pa).

• What were the building blocks of success?

– Identify key beneficiaries & stakeholders, e.g. farmers, business, government, researchers and other organisations.

– Collaborate in the design of new governance & financial mechanisms to implement project and monitor progress.

See full solution on a TNC-backed Water Fund in Colombia here

Solution presenter: David Schaub-Jones, TNC’s Water Fund Program Manager, based in South Africa.17

Shrimping horizons: How shrimp farmers are saving thousands of miles of mangroves in Vietnam• Context

– In past 3 decades, Vietnam has lost most of its mangroves, mainly due to shrimp farming.

– Problematic because healthy mangroves make important contributions to biodiversity,

climate change adaptation and mitigation as well as local livelihoods.

• What did we do?

– IUCN and partners implemented Mangroves and Markets to help shrimp farmers get organic certification.

– The certifications require at least 50% mangrove cover per farm. Farmers can then sell certified shrimp to the Minh Phu Seafood Corporation at a premium price.

• What happened? (the change/impact)

– The project also supported a pilot PES system and policy, requiring seafood companies to pay farmers an incentive for mangrove conservation and restoration per hectare for providing ecosystem services.

– The success of the project has led to its replication in Ben Tre and Tra Vinh provinces.

• What were the building blocks of success?

– Education and training for farmers on organic shrimp certification

– Incentives to conserve and restore mangroves through organic shrimp certification

See full solution here

Solution provider: Ann Moey with Andrew Wyatt, presented by Jake Brunner, Head of IUCN Indo-Burma Group18

Sharing and scaling up solutions

PANORAMA is a partnership promoting examples of inspiring, replicable solutions across a range of conservation and development topics, to enable cross-sectoral learning and upscaling of successes.

Some other nature-based solution examples featured on PANORAMA include:

• Building with Nature for safe, prosperous and adaptive coastlines in Indonesia by Wetlands International

• Combining ecological and infrastructural restoration in Panchase Mountainous Region, Nepal by IUCN

• Applying ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) in Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the Lukaya Basin, DRC by UNEP

To learn more or contribute your own solution on PANORAMA, please visit the business engagement thematic community here.

For more information about the BioBiz Exchange webinar series and for links to past webinars, please visit our webpage here or email: BioBiz@iucn.org.

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