During the XI PEP meeting (June 2007 Copenhagen), one of the recommendations of the session devoted to Ecosystem Services (ES) and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) was to put in place a PEP Working Group on ES and PES. Some of the institutions at the meeting that expressed interest in participating in such a working group include: DGIS, SDC, Irish Aid, SIDA, Austrian Development Agency, World Bank, WWF, IUCN, UNDP, WRI, IIED, Katoomba Group and TNC.

Recognizing that many institutions represented at PEP are already doing a lot on ES/PES, it was clear that this Working Group should neither duplicate, nor substitute them. Instead, the Working Group could be a clearing house to identify and inform PEP members and other stakeholders about shared opportunities to use ES and PES to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in general, and sustainable development and poverty alleviation in particular.

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The Working Group’s purpose is to become a clearing house to identify and inform PEP members and other stakeholders about shared opportunities to use Ecosystem Services (ES) and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in general and sustainable development and poverty alleviation in particular. Participants come both from donor agencies and conservation NGOs, with occasional guest contributors at specific events or activities.

Proposed 2008 Activities:

1. A PEP ES/PES Working group activity at the COP9 of the CBD (May 19 to 30 2008, Bonn)
2. A PEP ES/PES Working group activity at the Financing for Development Conference (November 29 to December 2 2008, Doha)
3. A PEP ES/PES Working Group activity at the 14th PEP

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