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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

The significance of ecosystem services (ESs) in global policy has been evident in the Paris Agreement, emerging REDD+ and initiatives like the Aichi Targets and the SDGs. FAO (2019) reported that the lack of ESs valuation has led to overexploitation of resources and poorly informed decisions in countries of the Asia Pacific. In the climate milieu, a fundamental plea for plural values of ESs, wherein the valuation languages are context dependent and need special capacity building to articulate, will be imperative. Given that both trade-offs and synergies exist between utilising ESs and development, multisectoral objectives need to be explored in the Asia Pacific. This project 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 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 a sustainable future.

Mr Parimal Suklabaidya, Hon Environment Minister, Govt of Assam, India

Dr. A. Arunachalam, Director, Central Agroforestry Research Institute, ICAR, Govt. of India

Md. Saadat Hussain, CEO, O’Creeds, Bangladesh