1. Focus on practical test cases in the MAES context
KIP INCA workshop
EEA, Copenhagen 09. March 2018
Focus on practical test cases in the MAES context
Markus Erhard, European Environment Agency (EEA)

2. EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 – MAES – KIP-INCA
link to KIP-INCA
Natural Capital 7th EAP

3. Ecosystem mapping and assessment
Policy integration
Ecosystem
Mapping
Condition assessment
Service assessment
Integration
DPSIR approach

4. Components of SEEA-EEA to be developed under KIP-INCA
Environmental Accounting
Components of SEEA-EEA to be developed under KIP-INCA
Knowledge Innovation Project on Integrated System for Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services Accounting in the EU
KIP-INCA, 2015

5. Land / ecosystem extent accounts
Condition and pressure assessment
2012
2015
LCF3
LCF1
LCF2
LCF5
LCF4
LCF7
LCF6
LCF8
Change Matrix
(44x43=1932 possible changes)
summarized into flows
LCF9

6. Ecosystem map –> Ecosystem extent accounts
12 Ecosystems
Terrestrial (7)
freshwater (1)
marine (4)
Ca. 60 Habitats
Terrestrial (>40)
freshwater (3)
marine (>15)
 Towards consolidated baseline
 Operational
MAES, 2016:

7. Nutrient accounts – pressure and condition assessment
Methodology development – Agro ecosystems , grasslands, and forests
Example Output map –N- input from manure in agricultural ecosystems
Source: ETC/SIA, 2013

8. Causalities - developing story-lines e.g. grassland
Nitrogen input 2010
Grassland ecosystems: non-bird species and habitat conservation status and trends
Change in nitrogen input
Nature report (EEA,2015)

9. Carbon Accounting Scheme
Subset needed, which is relevant for management and (policy) decisions
SOIL
FOREST
OTHER VEGETATION
CROPLAND
LIVESTOCK
CITIES
IMPORT
EXPORT
Food
Fodder
Dead biomass
Organic fertilization
CONTINENTAL WATER
Activated sludge
Dissolved organic carbon
ATMOSPHERE
Primary
production
Respiration
Grazing
Felling
Marine Biota
Fishing

10. Water quality and quantity accounts
Data models:
Linking linear and spatial data terrestrial - freshwater - marine
To insert: map of EU sub catchments

11. Ecosystem Condition - Ecosystem Services
Management  enhance multiple service portfolios
Ecosystem Services
Provisioning
Food, timber
Fish ……
Regulatory
Pollination Genetic diversity
Water/flood regulation
Cultural
Recreation
Heritage
Intrinsic value (bequest)
Condition - assessment
Pressures
Status
Biodiversity
NEC
IAS …
HBD
WFD
MSFD
Common Bird Indicator …
Ecosystems

12. Key functionalities of a shared data platform
Filling the MAES indicator framework for thematic assessments ‚nature‘, agriculture, forest, freshwater, marine, urban, soil:
Land /ecosystem extent accounts and fragmentation
Nutrient accounts: Condition and pressures
Water quantity and quality accounts
Biodiversity accounts (EBCC) ?
Climate change: Phenology and productivity - risk for ecosystem integrity
Marine hazardous contaminants, eutrophication, biodiversity, sustainable use
 MAES background documents to be shared with KIP INCA

13. Conclusions
Mutual interlinkages between ecosystem assessment and accounting and vice versa generating harmonized data based on standardized methods
Harmonisation important for policy support – providing “robust numbers and messages “
Assessment profiting from operational statistically proofed methods for stocks and flows (change detection), using the spatially referenced input data
Accounting profiting from mapping and ‚improving‘ reporting data flows  indicator framework as common entry point  policy streamlining process (DG-ENV and across DGs)
Need for more condition sensitive ecosystem service accounts  multifunctionality of ecosystems in several funding frameworks (e.g. LIFE, Green Infrastructure)

14. Thank you for your attention
EEA: Ecosystem Assessment:
MAES digital atlas
MAES catalogue of case studies:
Ecosystem Service Classification: The Ecosystem Services Partnership:
OPPLA platform: