SESSION 2 Identifying Synergies Among MEAs Using IEA Tools

#1 Clarify Focal MEAs, Status and Linkages with Development Priorities #2 Identify Synergies Among Focal MEAs #3 Articulate Desired Future Outcomes #4 Identify Portfolio of MEA Policies for Achieving Future Outcomes MEA Outcome Planning #6 Prepare MEA Policy Planning Brief Tool #1: MEA Priorities Mapping using Ecosystem - Wellbeing Linkages [Day 1 am/pm] Tool #2: MEA Synergy Mapping using DPSIR Analysis [Day 2 am] Tool #3: Setting the Challenge Scenario [Day 2 pm] Tool #5: Policy Stress Testing using Existing Scenarios [Day 3 pm] Tool #4: Policy Mapping and Back-casting [Day 3am] Tool #6: Policy Planning Brief [Day 4 am] IMPLEMENTATION AND REPORTING #5 Assess Risks and Opportunities and Improve and Adapt as Necessary Workshop Agenda

Tool #2 MEA Synergy Mapping Using ecosystem services / human wellbeing linkages from the IEA toolkit to map the connections between MEA commitments, national and sectoral priorities

5 HUMAN SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT STATE AND TRENDS IMPACTS Human well-being Economic, Social Goods & Services RESPONSES Mitigation and adaptation PRESSURES Sectors Human influences Natural processes DRIVERS Step 1 What is happening to the environment and why? Step 2 What are the consequences for the environment and humanity? Step 3 What is being done and how effective is it? Ecosystem Services Indirect influence through human development Direct influence through human interventions Water, land, atmosphere, biodiversity DPSIR Analytical Framework

6 HUMAN SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT STATE AND TRENDS RESPONSES N and P regulation Infrastructure Bottle water PRESSURES Agriculture Sewage Discharge Erosion DRIVERS Step 1 What is happening to the environment and why? Step 2 What are the consequences for the environment and humanity? Step 3 What is being done and how effective is it? Population growth Direct influence through human interventions River water quality– declining Example – Telling an Integrated MEA Story IMPACTS well-being - Access to clean water - Nourishment - health and relations Services - Fresh water - Food - Recreation

7 Air Quality Water Quality Soil Quality Understanding Inter-linkages

MEA Synergies Worksheet States, Pressures and Drivers MEA Goals and Targets Corresponding to Environmental States, Pressures and Drivers Key Synergies MEA #1MEA #2 States of the Environment List the state(s) of the environment that the MEA is addressing, along with specific targets cited Pressures List the direct pressures on the state(s) of the environment identified above. For each pressure list specific targets cited in the MEA and identify line departments having an influence. Drivers List the high-level drivers of change influencing the direct pressures identified above, along with any specific targets cited Impacts Articulate the primary impacts associated with changes in the environmental state(s). Use the ecosystem services and human wellbeing categories to assist with this analysis. For each wellbeing impact identify line departments who’s priorities may be affected by the impact.

MEA Synergies Worksheet - EXAMPLE States, Pressures and Drivers MEA Goals and Targets Corresponding to Environmental States, Pressures and Drivers Key Synergies MEA #1 United Nations Frame work Convention on Climate Change MEA #2 United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification States of the Environment List the state(s) of the environment that the MEA is addressing, along with specific targets cited Atmosphere Climate Change Soil Desertification Climate change intensifies drought intensifying desertification Pressures List the direct pressures on the state(s) of the environment identified above. For each pressure list specific targets cited in the MEA and identify line departments having an influence. Rising CO 2 from energy use CO 2 emissions from land-use changes Land-use intensification Water shortages Application of fertilizers Land use changes increase atmospheric CO 2

MEA Synergies Worksheet - EXAMPLE Drivers List the high-level drivers of change influencing the direct pressures identified above, along with any specific targets cited Global resource consumption Population growth Rising affluence International trade Global resource consumption Population growth Rising affluence International trade 1.Rising food demand 2.land use intensifies 3.increase CO 2 Impacts Articulate the primary impacts associated with changes in the environmental state(s). Use the ecosystem services and human wellbeing categories to assist with this analysis. For each wellbeing impact identify line departments who’s priorities may be affected by the impact. Water shortages (impacts on agricultural production, reduced food security) Soil degradation (reduction in crop cultivation, human health and nutrition) Soil degradation (decreased food security, poverty intensifies) 1. Climate change = desertification. 2. Combating desertification may reduce vulnerabilities to climate change impacts on food production.

Breakout Group Exercise #2 [60 min] Step #1: Identify Environmental States Using the flipchart provided, list the state(s) of the environment that your table’s focal MEA is addressing, along with specific targets cited Step #2: Identify Direct Pressures Using the flipchart provided, list the direct pressures on the state(s) of the environment identified above, along with specific targets cited Step #3: Identify High-level Drivers Using the flipchart provided, list the high-level drivers of change influencing the direct pressures identified above, along with any specific targets cited Step #3: Articulate Impacts Articulate the primary impacts associated with changes in the environmental state(s). Use the ecosystem services categories to assist with this analysis. Select a spokesperson to present your results in plenary

Tool #2: MEA Priorities Mapping