1. CGBN
Co-ordination Group
for Biodiversity and Nature
4th meeting - 12/02/09
Agenda item 3.C-4
Ecosystem dimension to policy development/integration Patrick Murphy, ENV.B.2

2. ‘Intermediate Products’ ‘Final Products’
The link between biodiversity, ecosystems and their services…
‘Intermediate Products’
‘Final Products’
Maintenance and restoration costs
Economic and social values (sometimes market values).
Source: Jean-Louis Weber (EEA) presentation at the Workshop: The Economics of the Global Loss of Biological Diversity 5-6 March 2008, Brussels, Belgium

3. Ecosystem Services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems (MA, 2005)

4. Ecosystems at the Centre of our Policy
We need to protect ecosystem function, integrity, resilience and vitality.
Current biodiversity policy is perceived to focus on species and habitats rather than the ecosystem (not in fact true).
How do we develop an integrated and comprehensive approach based on ecosystems?
What is happening in other areas of environmental policy?
Can we legislative for the protection of ecosystems?

5. Important Connections
TEEB
IPBES
EU Advisory Mechanism
Millenium Ecosystem Assessments
Sub-Regional Assessment for Europe
EURECA project