Activity 1:Develop incentive measures
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Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Promote incentive measures that encourage the application of the wise use principle and the removal of perverse incentives: Ramsar Strategic Plan 2003-2008, Operational Objective 8.1
- Review legislation and practices in order to identify and remove perverse incentives: Ramsar Resolution VIII.23, 7
- Develop supportive legal and policy frameworks for incentive measures: Ramsar Resolution VIII.23, 8 SEE COMMENTARY 1
- Make use of the IUCN and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) resource kit to assist in the design and implementation of incentive measures for wetland conservation and wise use: Ramsar Resolution VIII.23, 9
- Provide material, case studies and guidelines on incentive measures to the Ramsar Bureau: Ramsar Resolution VIII.23, 10
- Identify and enhance positive incentives for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VIII.34, 19 SEE COMMENTARY 2
- When reviewing agricultural policies, identify subsidies or incentives that may have negative impacts on water resources and wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VIII.34, 21 SEE COMMENTARY 2
- Review your programmes of subsidies to ensure they do not have negative consequences for the conservation of wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VIII.40, 14
- Ensure that laws and institutions aim to remove constraints to conservation and seek to introduce positive incentive measures: Ramsar Resolution VII.7, 8 SEE COMMENTARY 1
- Give priority consideration to financial mechanisms and incentives in efforts to promote the involvement of local communities and indigenous people: Ramsar Resolution VII.8, 21 SEE COMMENTARY 3
- Ensure that incentive measures are considered when applying the Ramsar guidelines on National Wetland Policies and those on reviewing laws and institutions: Ramsar Resolution VII.15, 12 SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Give consideration to incentive measures when applying the Ramsar guidelines on local communities’ and indigenous people’s participation: Ramsar Resolution VII.15, 13 SEE COMMENTARY 3 and 5
- Share experiences with respect to incentive measures and perverse incentives relating to wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VII.15, 14
- Provide incentives and valuation measures to support inland water biodiversity and remove perverse incentives: CBD Decision VII/4, 7 and CBD Decision VII/4, Annex (Revised programme of work on inland water biodiversity) SEE COMMENTARY 2 and 6
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Adopt measures that act as incentives for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity: CBD Article 11
- Identify and remove or mitigate international and national policies, laws and regulations that distort markets which generate perverse incentives: CBD Decision VII/12, 2 and CBD Decision VII/12, Annex II (Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines for Sustainable Use of Biodiversity) SEE COMMENTARY 7
- Introduce positive incentive measures for the prevention, eradication and control of invasive alien species and the use of native species: CBD Decision VII/13, 6f
- Take the proposals for the design and implementation of incentive measures into consideration when designing and implementing incentive measures for biodiversity: CBD Decision VI/15, 3 and CBD Decision VI/15, Annex I
- Submit case studies, lessons learned and other information on incentive measures: CBD Decision VI/15, 5
- Review legislation and economic policies to identify and promote incentives for biodiversity: CBD Decision III/18, 3 SEE COMMENTARY 1
- Adopt and enhance policy measures and incentive schemes to encourage private-sector support for technological and scientific cooperation benefiting the drylands: UNCCD Decision 1/COP.6, 15
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