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Seminar-Workshop: Legal and Institutional Aspects of PES Schemes
18 September 2009, RISAS, MAE, IUCN, The Katoomba Group
On September 18th, the Seminar-Workshop “Legal and Institutional Aspects of PES Schemes: Compensation for services of the ecosystems in Colombia, Perú, and Brazil” took place in Quito, Ecuador. The general objective of the event was to facilitate regional dialogue around different Latin American experiences regarding the implementation of compensation for environmental services schemes, with the intent of promoting environmental services as an effective tool for the management, conservation, and restoration of ecosystems.
This workshop was part of a series of activities sponsored by the IUCN’s Regional Office in South America (IUCN SUR, the, the Center for Environmental Rights (CDA), and the Katoomba Group, whose research of legal-institutional PES frameworks in Colombia, Perú, Bolivia and Brazil, was financed by the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development. The workshop was sponsored by the Ministry of Environment in Ecuador and the Network of Environmental Services Practitioners (RISAS), in hopes of strengthening the capacity of organized civil society and the development and exchange of knowledge at the political-legal level related to ecosystem services in the region.
The presentations and other event details can be found at: http://www.katoombagroup.org/~katoomba/event_details.php?id
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