economics

Workshop on economic incentives and trade policy

Geneva (Switzerland), 1-3 December 2003

• Provisional agenda
• Terms of Reference for the working groups

• Mandate: Decision12.22
• Notification to the Parties No. 2003/064
• Provisional list of participants (Countries that participated in the CITES workshop of the mega-biodiversity exporters held in Brussels in February 2001 were sponsored to attend this workshop. Parties and strategic partners that wish to participate were also invited.)

  Presentations (PDF files converted from PowerPoint. Please use the bookmarks in Adobe Reader for easy navigation)

• Country report (Guyana)
• Economic incentives and trade policy of wildlife utilization (Indonesia)
• Large Predator Policy (South Africa)
• Economic incentives for the conservation of Economic incentives for the conservation of CITES-listed species: Examples from the International Finance Corporation Biodiversity Portfolio (IFC)
• Analysing wildlife trade industries for conservation: crocodilian skins (IIED)
• A Tool Box for CITES ‘Certification’A Tool Box for CITES ‘Certification’ (ISO)
• Towards co-operation with CITES (ITC)
• OECD work relevant to economic incentives and trade in flora and fauna (OECD)
• Comments on Methodologies for national wildlife trade reviews (RFF)
• Promote trade and investment in products and services derived from biodiversity, support of sustainable development (UNCTAD)
• The role of economic instruments in the context of biodiversity related MEAs (UNEP)
• Integrated Assessment of Trade-Related Policies and the Use of Economic Instruments (UNEP-ETB)
• Can Programs of Payments for Environmental ServicesHelp Preserve Wildlife? (World Bank)
• Economic Incentives and Wildlife Conservation (Erwin H. Bulte, G. Cornelisvan Kooten and Timothy Swanson)
  

  Background documents

• Background paper on Methodologies for national wildlife trade reviews
• Economic Incentives and Wildlife Conservation
• The role of economic instruments in the context of biodiversity-related mul-tilateral environmental agreements (UNEP)
• A report by IUCN on the effectiveness of trade measures contained in CITES
  • Annex 2
  • Annex 3
• Evaluating Eden by IIED
• Case study on the management of Vicunas in Peru, by IIED

Sponsors:

This workshop was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, the United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Economics and Trade Branch of UNEP.