Payments for ecosystem services
GEO-7
PES highlights a global continuum, illustrating the relationship between our lifestyles, the demands associated with our production and consumption patterns, and the effects those demands have on close or distant ecosystems.; A market mechanism that offers fiscal (or other benefits) to incentivize natural resource managers and users towards the continued or improved provision of ecosystem services as such.; A voluntary transaction whereby a well-defined ecosystem service, or a land-use likely to secure that service, is being ‘bought’ by at least one buyer from at least one provider – if, and only if, the provider secures the provision of the service.
GEO-1-6
PES highlights a global continuum, illustrating the relationship between our lifestyles, the demands associated with our production and consumption patterns, and the effects those demands have on close or distant ecosystems.; A market mechanism that offers fiscal (or other benefits) to incentivize natural resource managers and users towards the continued or improved provision of ecosystem services as such.; A voluntary transaction whereby a well-defined ecosystem service, or a land-use likely to secure that service, is being ‘bought’ by at least one buyer from at least one provider – if, and only if, the provider secures the provision of the service.