1. A Payment for Ecosystem Services Approach
Sally Mills
Title slide

2. Basically how does all this work in the ‘real’ world?
Biomass to Bioenergy
What does this mean for me?
Can I use this approach on my site?
How do the economics work out?
What equipment do I need?
How do I sell the energy products?
Basically how does all this work in the ‘real’ world?

3. Payment for Ecosystem Services
A Best Practice Guide , DEFRA ‘Ecosystem services, simply defined, are the benefits we derive from the natural environment… Examples of these services include the supply of food, water and timber’

4. Framework for Delivery
DEFRA Pilot PES project
Build on the DECC project
Make the DECC project knowledge and experience accessible
Understand what is needed to make this happen in the ‘real world’
Attempt to answer questions about delivery.

5. Pilot PES Project Pilot area – Somerset Levels and Moors
Understand the roles and relationships
Monitoring and supply
Market and economic assessment
Tools to aid delivery
Framework to inform approach

6. Key Objectives Engage with local stakeholders
Identify core production sites and associated catchments
Understand supply and demand
Monitor the impact on sites
Develop a Conservation Biomass Calculator
Produce a framework of delivery and identify administrative structures

7. Local Stakeholders Workshops, site visits and meetings held
Variety of participants from statutory bodies to local land managers
Discussions on community structures, working together, future potential

8. Sites & Catchments Core production areas Reliability of supply
Climate change & future land management
Landscape approach

9. Supply and Demand
Understanding the balance

10. Monitoring The effect of harvesting material
The impact of machinery & techniques used
Assessment of compaction and vegetation recovery

11. Conservation Biomass Calculator
Tools to aid delivery

12. Framework & Administrative Structures
Develop a framework as a model that can be applied to different geographic areas
Provide the economic and market information required for a PES approach
Outline the range of stakeholders involved
From potential beneficiaries, intermediaries & knowledge providers
Guidance on the administrative structures required

13. Thanks...
To DECC for funding the development of the technologies and end-to-end systems needed to convert conservation biomass into bioenergy
To DEFRA for facilitating the delivery of this approach in the ‘real’ world
To all the contractors and participants who have helped to make it happen.