Collaboration agreement with Conservation International
1 June, 2006
The Global Mechanism has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Conservation International (CI) - one of the most important NGOs worldwide devoted to natural resource conservation - with the objective of promoting biodiversity conservation, sustainable land management and critical ecosystem restoration in the Andes.
This MoU formalizes and consolidates the partnership between CI and the GM who will work together on a common agenda for the implementation of synergistic strategies between the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), within the framework of CI’s programmes in Ecuador and in the Andean region.
Moreover, since compensation for environmental services mechanisms (CES) may help to reduce the pressure on forests and at the same time improve sustainable land use and landscape restoration, the two organizations believe that this institutional partnership will contribute to the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of key ecosystems and to the provision and maintenance of multiple environmental services.
Specific cooperation objectives under this MoU include developing financing mechanisms for the conservation and restoration of forest landscapes, and for sustainable land management. Special emphasis is placed on environmental services such as biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration and watershed protection.
On the Ecuadorian part of the Chocó-Manabí Conservation Corridor, the GM and CI-Ecuador are supporting the design of compensation for environmental services strategies to promote conservation, forest restoration and sustainable land management, in critical areas for enhancing connectivity and for combating land degradation.
In Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, the Andean Center for Biodiversity Conservation (CBC-Andes) and the GM are developing the “CI-GM Initiative Compensation for Environmental Services Initiative”. The aim of this initiative is to identify existing and potential CES-related initiatives of mutual interest and to design and jointly mobilize technical and financial resources to support CES financing mechanisms offering multiple service benefits.
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