Economic Valuation of Biodiversity Wealth and Debt in National Accounting

organized by the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development Dresden (IOER) on behalf of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)

Programme and Downloads

Day one:   Monday 20th of November 2023

09:00

Welcome – Introduction
BfN/IOER

09:15

Ecosystem and Species Appreciation in SEEA EA (PDF)
Carl Obst | Institute for Development of Environmental-Economic Accounting - IDEEA Group, Melbourne

09:30

Ecosystem Accounting: Economic Value of Biodiversity vs. Economic Values Connected to Biodiversity (PDF)
Aldo Femia | Italian National Institute of Statistics

09:45

Questions and Discussion

10:15

Break

10:45

Numeric Formulation of the Biodiversity Value of Ecosystems as a Function of Anthropogenic Use Intensity in Life Cycle Assessment (PDF)
Silvana Buerck / Jan Paul Lindner | Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg / Institute for Materials Resource Management (MRM) – Technology Assessment, Augsburg University

11:00

The Biodiversity Valuation of the Czech Republic Measured by Expert and Restoration Cost Method (PDF)
Pavel Cudlín | Global Change Research Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

11:15

Questions and Discussion

11:45

Break

12:15

The Biodiversity Existence Value of German Ecosystems based on Total Restoration Cost per Habitat Point (PDF)
Burkhard Schweppe-Kraft / Ralf-Uwe Syrbe | BfN, retired / IOER

12:30

Questions and Discussion

12:50

Wrap up day one and outlook on day two
BfN / IOER

 

Day two: Tuesday 21th of November 2023

09:00

Welcome – Introduction to the second day
BfN / IOER

09:05

The Concept of Ecological Debt measured for land-take: an experiment in France and potential uses (PDF)
Clément Surun | AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay

09:20

Additional Consumer Willingness to Pay to Prevent Species Extinction in Andalusian Stone Pine Forests (PDF)
Pablo Campos, Jose L. Oviedo | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

09:35

Questions and Discussion

10:05

Break

10:35

Willingness to Pay for Enhanced Habitat Conditions in Europe (PDF)
Alessandra La Notte | Contract Professor at the Politecnico University of Turin

10:50

A Comment on Existence Values from a National Statistical Office Perspective (PDF)
Simon Schuerz | German Federal Statistical Office

11:05

Questions and Discussion

11:35

Break

12:05

Monetary Values for Biodiversity as a non-use Value in Ecosystem Accounting - Potential and Steps Forward
Panel Discussion
Alessandra La Notte, Aldo Femia, Carl Obst, Steven King (Natural Resources Walres)

12:30

Discussion with all participants

12:50

Closing Words of the Initiators of the Workshop
BfN / IOER