Payment for Environmental Services

Payments for environmental services (PES) "are a class of economic instruments designed to provide incentives to land users to continue supplying an environmental (ecological) service that is benefiting society more broadly. In some cases, payments may be made to land users to adopt landuse practices that will produce the required service from scratch (e.g. growing trees for carbon sequestration). These payments have five defining features."

Contacts

Accessed November 2008:

• Sven Wunder - Senior Researcher, CIFOR Livelihoods Programme
• arkku Kanninen - Programme Director, CIFOR Environmental Services Programme
• Daniel Mudiyarso - Researcher, CIFOR Environmental Services Programme
• Johnson Nkem - Coordinator Trofcca Project
• Peter Frost - Associate Researcher, CIFOR Livelihoods Programme
• Terry Sunderland - Researcher, CIFOR Livelihoods Programme
• Enrique Ibarra - Associate Scientist
• Manuel Guariguata - Scientist, CIFOR Environmental Services Programme

Donors

Accessed November 2008:

• SDC (Contact - Jean-Laurent Pfund)
• MacArthur Foundation (Contact - Steve Cornelius)
• Conservation International (Contact - Patricia Zurita)
• European Union

Partners

Accessed November 2008:

• IIED
• Fundación Natura Bolivia
• Conservation International
• ETH Zurich
• World Bank
• EcoCiencia, Ecuador
• Ecoversa, Colombia
• CIDIAT, Venezuela
• CIAT, Colombia
• RUPES
• Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV)
• Global Conservation Payment Initiatives

Contact

Web: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org