1. Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES)
2nd meeting of MAES Working Group
Anne Teller, DG Environment Brussels, 18/06/2012

2. Follow-up of meeting of 13 March
Draft Mandate & Scoping document
Policy questions
Draft list of core tasks
Analytical framework
Matrix of ecosystems and ecosystem services to be mappend and assessed
Conceptual model
Valuation methods
Scientific input/outreach
Supporting work
Next steps

3. 1, MAES WG Mandate & Scoping
Draft revised by DG ENV according to:
Governance: explicit functional links with CGBN and NDM
Composition: involvement of stakeholders
Working methods: mandate of SG
Expected outcomes:
broader context of SGA and IPBES,
link with target 2
No amendment required to Scoping document
to be forwarded to CGBN of 6/9/12

4. 2. Policy questions
ENV to draft a list of key policy questions addressed by MAES and based on UK NEA with more focus on restoration
Comments received from BE, ES, NL, KNEU

5. Policy questions (1-6)
1. What are the status and trends of the EU’s ecosystems and the services they provide to society? 2. What are the drivers causing changes in the EU’s ecosystems and their services? 3. Which vital EU provisioning services are not provided by EU ecosystems? 4. How can we secure and improve the continued delivery of ecosystem services? 5. How do ecosystem services affect human well-being, who and where are the beneficiaries, and how does this affect how they are valued and managed? 6. What is the current public understanding of ecosystem services and the benefits they provide (some key questions could be useful to be included in the 2012/13 Eurobarometer on Biodiversity)?

6. Policy questions (7-10)
7. Why should we incorporate the economic values of ecosystem services into decision making (question to be addressed 2020)?
8. How might ecosystems and their services change in the EU under plausible future scenarios - including the development of scenarios and options for implementing the 15% restoration target? What would be needed in terms of review of financing instruments?
9. What are the economic implications of different plausible futures?
10. How have we advanced our understanding links between ecosystems, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services? More broadly, what is the influence of ecosystem services on long-term human well-being and what are the knowledge constraints on more informed decision making (question to be addressed to RTD and research community in the context of EU mechanism, KNEU and SPIRAL)?

7. Policy questions (11-12)
11. How can MAES assist MS to set priorities for ecosystem restoration within a strategic framework at sub-national, national and EU level? \How can MAES help to design prioritisation criteria for restoration and at which scale to get significant benefits in a cost-effective way (e.g. relevance for biodiversity; extent of degradation of ecosystems; the provision of key ecosystem services and cost-benefit ratios of restoration)? 12. How can MAES help to define where to strategically deploy green infrastructure in the EU in urban and rural areas to improve ecosystem resilience and habitat connectivity and to enhance the delivery of ecosystem services at Member State and sub-national level? How to foster synergies between existing and planned initiatives at local, regional or national levels in Member States, as well as how to promote further investments, thereby providing added value to Member States action?

8. 3. Core tasks & Roadmap
Streamlining of reporting: Discussion doc welcomed by Nature, water & Marine Directors at their May/June meetings
Scoping study on available research
Standards
Methodological guidance:
- Conceptual model to be further elaborated by MS
Glossary of terms & definitions
List of core tasks

9. 4. Analytical framework
First draft elaborated by a group of volunteers on 18 April (JRC, EEA, ENV, NL, DE, FR, ES, experts)
Comments received
Several iterations (versions 1 to 6)
Version 7 made available 2 weeks before WG MAES Meeting of 18 June
Compilation and clustering of comments sent separately
Comments expected from MS on 18 June

10. RUBICODE matrix, 2010
6 terrestrial ecosystems
17 ecosystem
services

11. Matrix of broad ecosystems and ESS 2012
12 ecosystems including marine
Urban
Crop
Agric.
mosaic
Grass
Wood Forest
Trans.
Wood
Heath Shrub
Sparse
Veget.
Inland waters
Coastal
Rivers
Lakes
Marine
Provisioning
Services
Regulating Services
Cultural Services
Ecosystem services (CICES)
22 Ecosystem services (TEEB)
21 Ecosystem services (MA)

12. Conceptual model?
TEEB Cascade, 2011
UK NEA, 2011
DPSIR, EEA 2012

13. TEEB revised framework: ecosystem - functions – services - benefits - values

14. 5. Scientific contribution
JRC Enlargement workshop
TEEB-BE D0 Conference
Biodiversity Knowledge Conf.
MAES-BE follow-up meeting
ECCB Conference, Glasgow
AlterNet Conference,
EPBRS Irish Presidency event
18-19/4/12
27/4/12
23/5/12
11/6/12
28/8/12-1/9/12
15-18/4/13
tbc

15. 6. Supporting work
BISE Ecosystem Platform
Public circa on
Functional mailbox
ENV contract on valuation ( )
REGIO's support at NUTS 2 level
EEA report on ecosystem accounts, October 2012
Launch ENV contracts on mapping biodiversity and ESS in EU and MS, restoration, no net loss, autumn 2012
ENV.C3 support on air pollution impact on biodiversity (2012)
EEA questionnaire, 2012

16. 7. Next steps Next steps Dates
WG MAES mandate + scoping to be validated by CGBN
6/9/12
Call for MS involment in MAES workshop at NDM, Cyprus
17-18/9/12
Presentation of TEEB-EU valuation contract outcomes at MAES WG
13/9/12
Results of ecosystem capital accounting to be presented by EEA at MAES WG
Agreement on MAES analytical framework & policy questions at Stakeholder workshop
November 2012
Dedicated Marine MAES workshop
June 2013 (tbc)