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Green GDP – Accounting for Ecosystem Services
Mark Eigenraam , Jessica Bowman, Joey Chua 19 July 2013, Prepared for Eco-Forum Global • Guiyang, China, 2013
Dialogue on Forestry in the context of Economic-Civilisation
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A brief history…
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Vegetation policy - “Net Gain”
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• Native Vegetation Credit Register• BushBroker
OFFSETS
• BushTenderINVESTMENT
http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/land-management/victorias-native-vegetation-management-a-framework-for-action
A brief history…
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Vegetation type, extent and condition mapping
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http://mapshare2.dse.vic.gov.au/MapShare2EXT/imf.jsp?site=bim
A brief history…
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ecoMarkets• Payments for multiple ecosystem services
EnSym• Environmental modelling
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https://ensym.dse.vic.gov.au/cms/
More recently…
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Victorian Environmental Partnerships
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http://www.depi.vic.gov.au/environment-and-wildlife/environmental-partnerships
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Offset reform
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http://www.depi.vic.gov.au/environment-and-wildlife/biodiversity/native-vegetation
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Victorian Experimental-Ecosystem Accounts
“establish internationally recognisable environmental accounts that improve the way we allocate resources”
(Environmental Partnerships: Priority 8, 2012)
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https://ensym.dse.vic.gov.au/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60&Itemid=71
Current context
• What does it mean for business, government and the economy?
– New ways to connect the economy with the environment!
– Environmental markets – opportunities for investment
– Environmental accounts – opportunities to understand ecosystem services natural capital provides and invest for the future
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National Statistics
Environment
Economy
System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA)
SNA
Society
ASSET
ASSET
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SEEA Central Framework (CF)
1. 2. 3.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/seearev/
Spreadsheets & charts7.16 Economic demonstrated stock of timber, Physical
7.17 Value of timber resources, Monetary
ASSET
Services
Services
Services
SEEA Ecosystem Accounts
Services
Victorian approach to Ecosystem Accounts
Victorian Ecosystem accounting concepts
InterFlows (input)
InterFlows (output)
ECOSYSTEM
EcosystemServices (output)
Inputs/Residuals
ECOSYSTEMECONOMY/
SOCIETYIntra flowsIntra flows
Eigenraam et al., 2012
Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP)
*) Eigenraam et al., 2012
Step Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP)*
1 Estimate the Gross Output of various economic activities
Estimate the Gross Ecosystem Output (clean air, water, etc) from an ecosystem asset (sum of ecosystem services and inter flows)
2 Determine the intermediate consumption, i.e., the cost of material, supplies and services used to produce goods or services
Determine the inputs (inter-flows) to the asset, i.e., pollination, habitat, water, nutrients used to produce Gross Ecosystem Output
3 Deduct intermediate consumption from Gross Output to obtain the Gross Value Added (summed for all businesses is GDP)
Deduct inputs from Gross Ecosystem Output to obtain the Gross Ecosystem Product
4 Deduct depreciation from Gross Value Add to obtain Net Value Added
Deduct depreciation (degradation) from Gross Ecosystem Product to obtain Net Ecosystem Product
Gross Ecosystem Product
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Inter flows (3.5 t/y nutrients)
FORESTInter flows
(2.5 t/y nutrients)
Intra flows
Inter flows (3.5 t/y nutrients) FOREST
Inter flows(1 t/y nutrients)
Intra flows
The ecosystem (FOREST) is improved to process more nutrients
GEP = 2.5 t/y
GEP = 1 t/y
Change GEP = 1.5 t/yEcosystem Service
- Clean water
Green GDP
• Develop indices of GEP to inform Green GDP– Clean air, erosion control, habitat, nutrient processing, etc
• Link changes in GEP to: – Changes in income (Green GDP) – Changes in environmental and ecosystem asset condition (degradation,
depreciation)– Other measures of social wellbeing
• Accounting for Ecosystem Services– Both the SEEA CF and SEEA EA provide a strong foundation to move
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