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The Global Environmental Facility and Payments for Ecosystem Services. A Review of current initiatives and recommendations for future PES support by GEF and FAO programs
by P. Gutman & S. Davidson
WWF Macroeconomic for Sustainable Development Program Office

A review taking stock of GEF PES portfolio and suggest possible ways forward, particularly in relation to PES potential to mainstream biodiversity into production landscapes and as a way to engage businesses.

This report describes the current status of private sector interest in, and engagement with, payments for ecosystem services. It offers a point of view on current private sector demand and willingness to pay for ecosystem services in the present and projecting into the future.

The purpose of this paper is to assess the state of knowledge on these issues and to provide an initial assessment of the potential for PES in agricultural landscapes to be an important means of addressing water quality issues in developing countries–and most particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

Forthcoming. State and Trends of Demand for Environmental Services- achieving private sector investment.

A synthesis looking into the current state of demand for environmental services (watershed services, climate change mitigation (carbon sequestration) and biodiversity conservation) and discusses the potentials for private sector in engaging with ES markets and the key barriers to such involvement.

This brief discusses opportunities for PES to support the adoption of sustainable land management and increase environmental service provision. It looks at the potential benefits for smallholders and suggests PES design and implementation measures to overcome barriers preventing them from benefiting more from these incentive mechanisms.