3. Source: UNEP

4. Capturing Coral Reef & Related Ecosystem Services (CCRES)
A GEF / World Bank Regional Project under the program
Scaling Up Partnership Investments for Sustainable Development of the Large Marine Ecosystems of East Asia and their Coasts

5. CCRES Partners Global Environment Facility World Bank
The University of Queensland
The University of The Philippines
De La Salle University, Philippines
Cornell University
University of California Davis
Indonesian Universities –(TBC)
WWF-US and WWF-Indonesia
Currie Communications

6. PRDP & WAVES COREMAP PEMSEA
PROP: Pacific Island Regional Oceanscape Project
&
WB Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
Coastal Resources for Sustainable Development
PRDP & WAVES
COREMAP
PEMSEA

7. Project Snapshot Region Duration Current Financing ($10.4m)
East Asia-Pacific (Philippines, Indonesia, Pacific Islands)
Duration
Five years
Effective date: 1 October 2013
Closing date: 30 September 2018
Current Financing ($10.4m)
Cash: US $4.5 m (GEF) & AUD $2.0 m (UQ)
In-Kind: $3.9 m
The University of Queensland
Project Executing Agency
Research Partner

8. What will CCRES do?
Mission: To engage government and coastal communities in bringing whole-of-system thinking to the design of local economies founded on a mutually reinforcing relationship between ecosystem health and economic performance
This gives a material rationale for decision-makers to sustain coastal ecosystems and the locally-accrued benefits that they contribute to human wellbeing and prosperity

9. What challenge is CCRES addressing?
Discounting the future
Limited understanding of trade-offs
Lack of business acumen and innovation

10. Challenge:
In coastal communities, local businesses frequently degrade the natural resources on which they rely
At the same time, alternative livelihoods schemes rarely succeed in becoming financially self-sustaining, often set up by those with little or no business expertise, making supply-driven products that do not consider demand or market access
Both problems stem from ignoring the value chain that extends from the natural resource, via the producer, all the way to the end-consumer.

11. So CCRES:
Targets Investigations to quantify, model, clarify and map ES role & value and inform local communities (and Government)
Integrates ES information with business practices---assessed to strengthen those practices & their value chains from the resource base to the consumer
Targets communication & ownership—seeking +Δ in routine practice & behavior

12. Project Components C.3 Engaging, persuading, enabling
Dissemination & outreach
C.3
Engaging, persuading, enabling
Local Community and Government
Norms, attitudes, policy
Livelihoods,
food security
C.2
Integrating, securing, monetising
Business Enterprises
Environmental Impacts ±
C.1
Natural Capital
Measuring, valuing, mapping
Ecosystem services

13. Component I “Quantifying the value and market potential of coral reef and mangrove ecosystem services” Objective: To provide CCRES technical input on economic, social, natural and management science “Measuring, valuing and mapping”

14. Measuring Ecosystem Services
Targeted Investigations fill information gaps on the roles that ES play in a specific community
Coastal protection
Fisheries
Tourism
Carbon sequestration

15. “What is the value of a management action relative to cost?”
Ecosystem Service Benefits:
Effect of reef health on fisheries productivity
“What is the value of a management action relative to cost?”
Productive
Degraded

16. Why value ecosystem services?
National wealth accounts (alongside other forms of capital, e.g., minerals, human, agriculture)
Local stakeholders better understand how a change in ecosystem health affects their daily lives
Incorporate value into Marine Spatial Planning to improve benefits to people and reduce conflict

17. Effects of governance on the flow of ecosystem service benefits
“Who gets what, and why?”

18. Reconciling trade-offs among ecosystem services
“How do we get optimal outcomes for multiple objectives?”
Marine Spatial Planning

19. CCRES sites Philippines 1 2 3 4 Pacific? 5 Kiribati Solomons 3 1 2
1. Batangas
2. Visayas
3. Palawan (north/south) 1 2 3 4
Pacific? 5
Kiribati
Solomons 3 1 2
Indonesia
1. Bali
2. Selayer
3. Wakatobi
4. Bird’s Head
5. Biak

20. “Integrating, balancing and securing”
Component II
“Forging community-led innovation in capturing and sustaining benefits from ecosystem service values and enhancing resilience in the face of climate change”
Objective: To provide expertise in business innovation, management science and complex systems analysis
“Integrating, balancing and securing”

21. …while reinforcing or maintaining these.
Regulating services
Cultural services
Complementarity
CO2
…while reinforcing or maintaining these.
Component II aims to build business that directly or indirectly utilise these…
Direct sale
Supporting services
Provisioning services

22. Activities Understand current systems Business development
Current & external businesses
Inventory “eco-businesses”
Business development
Assess existing & potential eco-business for triple bottom line performance
Decision Toolkit development
Undertake evaluation of the current business environment
Assess external business environment
Create an inventory of potential coastal eco-businesses whose success has been demonstrated elsewhere (e.g eco-tourism, mariculture – for food and aquarium trade, ecosystem restoration initiatives)
Assess existing and potential eco-businesses at pilot sites
Assess triple bottom line performance of existing and potential eco-businesses
Identify opportunities to improve performance of existing businesses using Component 1 expertise
Conduct participatory systems analysis to assess eco-business scenarios
Investigate potential for synergies, conflicts and perverse outcomes within eco-business suites
Create scenarios to feed into Marine Spatial Planning process under Component 1
Identify skills training needs that exist within pilot site communities
Piloting eco-business models and generalising lessons learned
Work with local communities to operationalise eco-business models
Generalise knowledge created by CCRES
Create knowledge products that allow communities to operationalise ecosystem service based economies

23. Component III “Promoting behavioural change through outreach, decision support and regional learning” Objective: To provide expertise in communications, value systems, policy, engagement and outreach “Engaging, persuading, and enabling”

24. Integration Survey development & application Values analysis
Component III
Integration
Survey development & application
Values analysis
Social network analysis
Policy and governance impact

26. Next Steps Approved by World Bank Board – September 2013
Start date: 1 October, 2013
Project Operating Manual & Implementation Plan
Procurement call for
Implementation team &
appoint team members
Commence implementation

27. Melanie King, UQ Global Change Institute m.king4@uq.edu.au