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Eionet Meeting on Biodiversity 28-29 October 2013, EEA

Eionet Meeting on Biodiversity 28-29 October 2013, EEA . EU Biodiversity Strategy The Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services in Europe (MAES) &  The Restoration Prioritisation Framework (RPF) By Frank Wugt Larsen, NSV1, EEA . eea.europa.eu.

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Eionet Meeting on Biodiversity 28-29 October 2013, EEA

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  1. Eionet Meeting on Biodiversity28-29 October 2013, EEA EU Biodiversity Strategy The Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services in Europe (MAES)& The Restoration Prioritisation Framework (RPF) By Frank Wugt Larsen, NSV1, EEA eea.europa.eu

  2. EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 • Target 2 Maintain and restore ecosystems and their services • ‘By 2020, ecosystems and their services are maintained and enhanced by establishing green infrastructure and restoring at least 15% of degraded ecosystems.’ eea.europa.eu

  3. Target 2 – a key target with several actions eea.europa.eu

  4. The Common Implementation Framework (CIF): the governance structure of the BD strategy eea.europa.eu

  5. Action 5: Improve knowledge of ecosystems and their services in the EU • Action 5 under Target 2 of the BD Strategy to 2020: • ‘Member States, with the assistance of the Commission, will map and assess the state of ecosystems and their services in their national territory by 2014, assess the economic value of such services, and promote the integration of these values into accounting and reporting systems at EU and national level by 2020.’ eea.europa.eu

  6. 4 steps of implementation of MAES • Biophysical baseline mapping and assessment of the state of major ecosystems (by 2014) • Biophysical baseline mapping and assessment of defined ecosystem services (by 2014) • Alignment of ecosystem service assessments with scenarios of future changes (by 2020) • Valuation of ecosystem services for baseline and contrasting scenarios and integration into environmental and economic accounting (by 2020) eea.europa.eu

  7. An analytical framework for ecosystem assessments under action 5 • To support the development of a coherent analytical framework to be applied by the EU and its MS. • Conceptual framework • A typology for ecosystems for mapping • A typology for ecosystem services eea.europa.eu http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/knowledge/ecosystem_assessment/pdf/MAESWorkingPaper2013.pdf

  8. Conceptual framework ES – ESS assessment eea.europa.eu

  9. MAES Pilot Studies • Aim: • to test the MAES analytical framework using six thematic pilots • to provide a set of recommendations to help the Member States with their assessments eea.europa.eu

  10. 6 MAES Pilot Studies • Use of Article 17 (Habitats Directive) status data for assessment of ecosystem conditions • Natural capital accounting (exploratory work) • Four pilots on broad ecosystem types: • Forest ecosystems • Agro-ecosystems • Freshwater ecosystems (rivers, lakes and wetlands) • Marine ecosystems eea.europa.eu

  11. 6 MAES Pilot Studies: status? • Outcomes of pilots will be used for drafting a synthesis report to be available end 2013 / early 2014. • An ‘all pilots workshop’ is planned (18-19 Nov) to support the drafting process of the synthesis report. eea.europa.eu

  12. Target 2 – a key target with several actions eea.europa.eu

  13. Action 6: Set priorities to restore and promote the use of green infrastructure • Action 6a under Target 2 of the BD strategy to 2020: • ‘ By 2014, Member States, with the assistance of the Commission, will develop a strategic framework to set priorities for ecosystem restoration at sub-national, national and EU level.’ eea.europa.eu

  14. Working Group on the Restoration Prioritisation Framework • The objective of the Working Group is to support the Member States and the Commission in guiding the choices for the delivery of the 15% restoration target. • The 4th (and probably last) meeting of WG RPF was held on 2 Oct in Brussels. • A contractor to DG Env has developed several technical guidance document to support efforts in MS. eea.europa.eu

  15. Working Group on the Restoration Prioritisation Framework • The four draft guidance documents: • A guide to the development of a restoration prioritization framework at national and sub-national level • The 4-level approach to restoration incorporating considerations at the level of the landscape • The need for and character of possible support mechanisms • Opportunities for innovative sources of financing in support of restoration • The documents will be made available through the DG ENV web-site (in the process of being finalized) eea.europa.eu

  16. Conceptual framework • Restoration should be regarded as a process (thus not a binary restored vs degraded description of state) • Thus, significant efforts to improve the condition of a site can, in principle, be counted as a contribution to restoration even if the site is not fully restored to its "original/natural state" • Identifies four different levels of restoration (which will be defined based on descriptors of abiotic and biotic condition) • Restoration needs to be defined for the different ecosystem types, i.e. classification system on ecosystem typology agreed under MAES • As a basis every MS is responsible for realizing 15% of restoration eea.europa.eu

  17. Four different levels of restoration eea.europa.eu

  18. Thank you! Questions? • Frank Wugt Larsen, flarsen@eea.europa.eu eea.europa.eu

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