Creating Pro-Poor Markets for Ecosystem
Services
A High-Level Brainstorming Workshop

10 – 12 October 2005, London, United
Kingdom

Organized by the Division of Environmental
Conventions, UNEP in conjunction with the London School of
Economics

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Several reports and processes
addressing the link between poverty reduction and a healthy
environment have been released in recent months, including the
report of the UN Millennium Project, “Investing in
Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium
Development Goals”; the report of the Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment (MA), including its synthesis reports, “Ecosystems
and Human Well-being” and “Biodiversity and Human Well-being”;
and the report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP),
“Environmental Sustainability in 100 Millennium Development
Goal Country Reports.”

The High-Level Brainstorming
Workshop on Creating Pro-Poor Markets for Ecosystem Services
is one of the follow-up activities to the Workshop for MEAs on
Mainstreaming Environment Beyond MDG 7 held in July 2005, in
Nairobi, Kenya. Participants at this Workshop included heads
of various MEA Secretariats, senior representatives of UNDP,
the UN Millennium Project and internationally recognized
experts in the field of environment and development. They
agreed on concrete short-, medium-, and longer-term activities
to help ensure that the objectives of the environment and
development communities mutually support each other on the
ground as well as at the international level.

Economic
instruments, including the creation of markets are
increasingly recognized as having an important role to play in
the implementation of many MEAs, in addition to spearheading
sustainable development and reducing poverty. These
instruments can generate financial resources, divert funds to
environmentally friendly technologies, create incentives for
investment, and increase the involvement of private agents in
environmental protection.
The London Workshop will consider
the opportunities and possible perverse effects resulting from
the creation of markets for ecosystem services especially in
the form of exclusion of the poor. One of the objectives of
the Workshop is to explore ways for the MEAs to support and
contribute to pro-poor markets for ecosystem services, if such
markets are deemed desirable.

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Links

UNEP Division of
Environmental Conventions
Meeting
Portal and Documents
Background
Document: 2005 World Summit Outcome
UNEP
London School of
Economics
ENB Coverage of the
World Summit on Sustainable
Development

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