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Climate Adaptation Through 'Payment for Ecosystem Services' Ecosystem based Climate adaptation through adaptation ‘payment for ecosystem An innovative services’ in the Philippines river-basin scheme is strengthening Context and challenge including agri-plantations on steep slopes and mining – and climate resilience The Cagayan de Oro River drains the northern central part of the non-preparedness of the population.2 Action is needed to and addressing the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. From its headwaters protect people in the face of these mounting threats. biodiversity loss in the biodiversity-rich forest areas of the Kalatungan and by encouraging Kitanglad mountains, and across its 137,000-hectare Taking an ecosystem approach businesses to catchment, protected areas overlap with the ancestral The ecosystem approach promotes the integrated reward indigenous domains of indigenous peoples. Tensions have flared management of land, water and living resources in a way that peoples for between industry – including logging, mining and agribusiness achieves mutually compatible conservation and sustainable conserving – and indigenous communities in the mountains who rely on use, and delivers equitable benefits for people and nature.3 vital ecosystem subsistence and seasonal cash crops for survival, and who In this case, the region’s growing vulnerability reinforces services. This are alarmed by persistent encroachment into their forests.1 the urgent need for sustainable land-use management and initiative is a model ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) to mitigate the impacts of for cooperative On the fertile mountainsides of the province of Bukidnon, future climate change-related disasters. resources flourishing agribusinesses such as pineapple and banana management that plantations are boosting the economy and providing On Mindanao, achieving this means building-up the employment for thousands of Mindanao ‘lowlanders’. resilience of upland ecosystems while ensuring the delivery offers long-term Meanwhile, indigenous people are experiencing the loss of the range of ecological services that people and nature security for the of ancestral lands and facing threats to their culture, but rely on. This requires: (i) reforestation of barren grasslands most vulnerable. are not receiving benefits such as new jobs or services. in the degraded headwaters; (ii) protection of remaining Agriculture is also causing sedimentation and chemical healthy rainforest; (iii) promoting sustainable agricultural pollution that severely affect downstream ecosystems. practices in the mid-slopes; (iv) addressing mining practices and other land-uses that are weakening ecosystem THRIVING Alongside these land-use conflicts, there have been radical resilience and increasing disaster vulnerability; and (iv) ECONOMIES changes in weather patterns. Mindanao has traditionally relocating settlements from the flood-prone areas along the been ‘typhoon free’, but in recent years the island has been river to higher grounds to create ‘room for the river’. subjected to a series of tropical storms, or (super)typhoons. These have caused extreme floods, numerous casualties, Adopting a river basin-wide system of payment for IMPROVED and considerable economic losses, soil erosion and siltation. ecosystem services (PES) offers a strategic way to realise LIVELIHOODS Climate change models predicted this southward movement these goals while rehabilitating landscape and community of the typhoon belt, and experts now agree that the recent integrity. With Ecosystem Alliance support, local civil disasters are likely to have been as a result of this shift. society has already put in place several critical enabling conditions to set the stage for an effective PES: FOOD These natural disasters jeopardise the ecosystem goods and • Governance – Project partner, the Xavier University- SECURITY services that have been freely provided to local communities McKeough Marine Center, supported the re- for millennia. The impact of the typhoons was made even establishment of the Cagayan de Oro River Basin more devastating, in terms of both lives lost and damage, Management Council, which consists of local due to a perilous combination of the pre-existing ecosystem governments, NGOs, academics, the church and the WATER degradation caused by irresponsible land use by industries – private sector. The Council has now formulated an SECURITY integrated river basin management master plan and carried out a climate change vulnerability assessment and GIS mapping. The Council is key to implementing EbA and piloting PES in the basin, and provides a model HEALTHY for civil society organisations across the country.4 BIODIVERSITY • Community engagement – Kitanglad Integrated NGOs, another project partner, has mobilised local indigenous peoples and is now working with them to design new 2 CO ARAGDAG approaches to managing their natural resource base CLIMATE C. K and create new sources of income. RESILIENCE ACOB • Policy Advocacy – Xavier University is working Y J with the Office of the Presidential Adviser for ON H NT EnvironmentalProtection, who is championing private A sector engagement on PES through policy legislation. Advocacy is also being targeted at the municipal level, with a view to streamlining PES in Local Government SUSTAINABLE Units and ensuring that it will survive well beyond the DEVELOPMENT timeframe of the Ecosystem Alliance project. This initiative Datu Dungkuan Rio Besto by includes help to develop new PES/EbA-related legislation. • The Kalatungan initiative has set a new precedent, and is now being regarded with interest by many environmental organisations, academic institutions and government agencies with a view to its replication in different arenas. These include public-private partnerships, ‘reef-to- ridge’ engagement, indigenous peoples participatory development, watershed and ecosystem restoration, and even potentially for REDD+ negotiations. ecretariat Looking to the future Securing firm commitments from agribusinesses, municipalities and other stakeholders is the biggest CDORBMC S challenge ahead. A carefully targeted marketing strategy is • Awareness raising – Valuing Ecosystem Services emphasising that a river basin-wide PES system is critical Together (VEST) is a Xavier University social marketing to the climate resilience of this vulnerable, disaster-prone movement aimed at propelling communities, local region. This message is being relayed to a select audience, governments and the private sector towards the including corporations and cooperatives, governments sustainable management of ecosystems and ecosystem and municipalities, and members of the public. Local civil services in Northern Mindanao. society partners will continue to actively engage and the project will ensure that they have more support and a Thanks to these collaborative actions, the groundwork stronger voice in negotiations. “We live here. Our has been laid to implement PES in Mt. Kalatungan, with ancestors lived here. All sustainable water supply and flood control as the main A second challenge is to consolidate and upscale PES and our actions will affect ecosystem services and indigenous communities identified as EbA across the Cagayan de Oro basin, expanding the scope the future generations. the ‘sellers’. Key to success will be the readiness of potential of the project to include mid- and downstream regions. To That is why we need to beneficiaries to recognise and reward the efforts of upstream achieve this it is vital that regional and local government take care of our forest. communities to conserve the upstream environment. authorities continue to integrate these processes in their What is there to life Mindanao Development Authority and Oro Savings and policy and legislation. Further replication opportunities may when the forests will Sharing Cooperative were the first two buyers.Xavier come from developing this initiative as a showcase for be taken away from University is now recruiting more ‘buyers’ among the private applying PES and EbA in many river-basin contexts. us? The success of this sector – such as agri-businesses like Del Monte and Unifrutti, ecological undertaking water and electric providers – and segments of the public, Given the innovative nature of this PES approach, lies in the synergy among ready to pay for ecosystem restoration and protection. participating businesses could be considered global the communities of trendsetters and environmental champions. A wider outreach Northern Mindanao.” To scale-up these activities, Kitanglad Integrated NGOs is strategy will be required to communicate this emerging Datu Dungkuan Rio now developing a similar PES initiative for Mt. Kitanglad, success story at relevant regional and international fora. Besto, chairman of where an indigenous-owned Talama trust fund is in place to the Miarayon-Lapok- manage the finances. Most important for all the people of the Cagayan de Lirongan-Tinaytayan Oro river basin will be the ongoing bolstering of climate Tribal Association Impacts on communities, nature resilience and restoration of national capital that will help (MILALITTRA) in and policy them to face future threats and challenges. Talakag, Bukidnon • PES agreements have been successfully implemented in Mt. Kalatungan and are now being closely monitored, For more information, please contact: with semi-quasi government and cooperatives among IUCN NL: Maartje Hilterman, [email protected] the first buyers of ecosystem services. Twitter: @vestogether • PES mechanisms are being put in place in the adjacent Mt.
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