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Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

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Project • CBA2020-03MY-Dey

Building capacities among AP-PLAT partners in the “science of pricing ecosystem services” for enabling ecosystem-based adaptation for sustainable future

Significance of ecosystem services (ESs) in global policy has been evident in Paris Agreement, emerging REDD+ and initiatives like Aichi Targets, and SDGs. FAO (2019) reported that lack of ESs valuation has led to over exploitation of resources and poorly informed decisions in countries of Asia Pacific. In the climate milieu, a fundamental plea for plural values of ESs, wherein the valuation languages are context dependent and needs special capacity building to articulate, will be imperative. Given that both trade-offs and synergies exist between utilizing ESs and development, multisectoral objectives needs to be explored too, in Asia pacific. This would facilitate AP-PLAT (Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform) to share advanced scientific climate risk information towards adaptation planning. The proposal aims at regional preparedness by developing capacities in scientific, economic and socio-political scenario planning approaches on pricing of ESs for AP-PLAT partners. Outcomes would build capacities in pricing ESs and as well monitor, model and predict spatio-temporal values of ESs adaptive learning towards ecosystem-based adaptations in resolving conflicts, assessing damage loss and reverting current linear extractive economic scenario with neo-economic circular conservation paradigms for sustainable future. The outcomes will be consolidated into a global curriculum for free online dissemination.