| In this videoconference linking African environmental teams with experts at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., explored the problems of environmental projects and how to sustain improved environmental practices using payments for environmental services (PES). The videoconference is the 7th in a series of 8 sessions on The Ecosystem Approach to NRM. The meeting took place on February 28, 2006, and was chaired by Pietronella van den Oever, a consultant from the World Bank Institute.
The session opened with presentations from participating sites based on questions from the previous session. Stefano Pagiola, a Senior Environmental Economist with the Bank, then spoke on how problems handled at the ecosystem level must often cross political boundaries, as well as handling protected species. In turn, each site presented a project where payments for environmental services could be or had been implemented, followed by a response by Pagiola.
Marian delos Angeles, Senior Environmental Economist for the World Bank Institute, discussed competition and the use of environmental “services” such as water and vegetation. This viewpoint helps to bolster arguments favoring user fees for polluters. Delos Angeles also responded to the earlier presentations. She then handed the discussion to Arati Belle, a Bank consultant, who spoke on watershed management with user fees. A lengthy discussion on this topic followed. The session closed with remarks from van den Oever, and Benjamin Guillon, Environmental Consultant to the Bank and resource person on Carbon Markets in the next and final session of the series.
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