Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
Designing and delivering carbon and biodiversity credit schemes to benefit MPA managers, indigenous peoples and local communities
Wednesday, May 22, 11 am US EDT/8 am US PDT/3 pm UTC/4 pm BST. Presented by: Julian Clifton of the University of Lincoln. Description: Carbon and biodiversity credit schemes (often collectively referred to as ‘nature-based solutions’) are increasingly highlighted as a means to deliver on global biodiversity and climate change targets. The total size of the nature-based solutions market is projected to reach around $200 billion by 2050, representing a significant means to address the growing gap in conservation financing in protected areas worldwide. It is imperative, however, to ensure that the design and delivery of monetary or non-monetary benefits (termed co-benefits) arising from such credit schemes involve relevant resource users, including indigenous peoples, on an equitable and just basis. This webinar will introduce the current landscape of biodiversity and credit schemes, identifying the main actors and processes involved. The webinar will identify a suite of principles and criteria which provide a framework for managers and communities within protected areas to evaluate the impacts of credit schemes on local resource users and ensure that co-benefits are tailored to the local social, cultural, political and environmental context. The role of MPA managers as intermediaries in scheme design and implementation will also be highlighted. It is hoped that this webinar will enable MPA managers to work alongside resource users in the co-design and implementation of nature-based solutions schemes to facilitate the long term delivery of appropriate co-benefits to MPAs and their resident communities.
The role of marine protected areas in providing ecosystem services to improve ocean and human health
Thursday, June 20, 10 am US EDT/7 am US PDT/2 pm UTC/3 pm BST/4 pm CEST. Presented by: Gillian Ainsworth of University of Santiago de Compostela. Description: Marine protected areas (MPAs) are key management tools that contribute to the conservation of marine ecosystems worldwide, increasing the ecosystem services that nature provides to people. These ecosystem services include the release of oxygen, leisure opportunities, cultural inspiration, and the provision of food and medicines that improve the health and well-being of millions of people. In this talk we explain how natural processes and components in MPAs are valued by different groups of people and how we can maximize their effectiveness and avoid negative socio-economic effects such as social conflicts and inequitable distribution of benefits. We recommend that the MPA creation and management decision-making include the collection and integration of interdisciplinary data. This data can be used to develop pluralistic methods of valuation and foster social equity by involving local stakeholders.
Past Webinars
Demonstration of Oregon MarineMap
Oregon MarineMap is a web-based decision support tool to support the State of Oregon’s marine spatial planning efforts including the on-going public process…
Presentation by the West Coast EBM Network: Real Steps towards EBM along the West Coast of the U.S.
The West Coast EBM Network is a partnership of community-based initiatives on the U.S. West Coast focused on proactive management of local coastal ecosystems…
Strategies and Technologies for Developing High Seas MPAs
MPA News and the EBM Tools Network co-hosted a live global webinar to explore new strategies and technologies for identifying significant areas in the open ocean and deep sea…
Uncertainty Analysis Using SLAMM
Predictive models are always affected by uncertainties. There is not one “right” prediction, rather there is a distribution of possible future results….
Ecosystem-Based Zoning in the Bay of Samaná, Dominican Republic
The Nature Conservancy and Center for the Conservation and Ecodevelopment of Samaná Bay have recently completed a project to produce an innovative design of a marine zoning..
More Lessons from MPA Networking Programs
MPA News and the EBM Tools Network co-hosted a live Web-based seminar (“webinar”) on 19 October 2009 to explore lessons learned from…
Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris: Anticipating and Mitigating Its Impacts on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
This webinar explored how NOAA, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Digital Ocean Collaborative on Marine Debris, and other partners..
Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning into Traditional Scenario Based Approaches
Regional and local agencies in charge of policy-making and land use planning are in great need of increased technical capacity for conducting the kind of analyses…