Landscale GLF Presentation LR 23-06-2019
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This document introduces LandScale, a framework for assessing and communicating landscape sustainability performance. It consists of four pillars - ecosystems, human well-being, governance, and production. The framework aims to understand landscape sustainability through consistent metrics, drive multi-stakeholder action through cross-sectoral collaboration, and communicate assessments and progress reports to incentivize sustainable investment and sourcing decisions. A pilot of the LandScale framework is being conducted in Costa Rica to demonstrate the impact of landscape restoration activities and strengthen governance.
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Landscale GLF Presentation LR 23-06-2019
- 1. LandScale A new approach for assessing and communicating sustainability performance at landscape scale
- 2. A framework to support landscape sustainability: ● UNDERSTAND: Set forth consistent and holistic set of metrics to assess landscape sustainability ● ACTION: Drive cross-sectoral, multi-stakeholder action to improve landscape management ● COMMUNICATE: Verify assessments & credible reporting of progress ● INCENTIVISE: Encourage investment & sourcing decisions linked to landscape performance Photo by H E NG S T R E A M on UnsplashedPhoto from Pexels
- 3. Landscape actors ★ Communities ★ Natural resource-based industry ★ Government Who could benefit from using a landscape-level framework? Global actors ★ Supply chain companies ★ Donors & investors Source: http://landscale.org
- 4. The Pillars, Goals, & Indicators Pillars ★ Ecosystems ★ Human well- being ★ Governance ★ Production Principles ★ Land use planning & management ★ Land/resource tenure ★ Human well- being ★ Human rights
- 5. Governance Pillar (draft) ● Goal: Promote rights and reduce conflict - Indicator: Land & resource rights & tenure (formal & customary) - Indicator: Incidence of land & resource conflicts ● Goal: Promote transparency, inclusion, and coordination in land use policy, planning, and management - Indicator: Coordination of government agencies in land use policy, planning, & management - Indicator: Stakeholder participation & inclusion in land use policy, planning, & management
- 7. Costa Rica’s LandScale pilot: in the subwatersheds of Virilla and Rio Grande ● Agua Tica Water Fund to: ○ Demonstrate impact of investment in landscape restoration activities ○ Assess LS to strenghten landscape governance and PPPs ○ Link to other initiatives in landscape (coffee production)
- 8. Thank you LandScale More info: http://landscale.org *First Public Consultation begins week commencing August 5, 2019
Editor's Notes
- Speaker: Naomi So how will LS help to transform productive landscapes to become more sustainable? LS will provide a consistent and holistic set of metrics which can be used to assess the state and trajectory of sustainability across an entire landscapes. This could be defined by either a political or ecological boundary, such as a jurisdiction or watershed. We will also develop and manage a system for verifying assessments to enable impact and trends at landscape scale to be reported in a credible manner on the Landscape Standard data platform/website. Access to reliable and standardised information about the sustainability performance of a landscape will enable this information to be taken into account by companies and financial institutions when making investment and sourcing decisions This will create incentives for different sectors and stakeholders to align efforts to achieve improvements across the key dimensions of sustainability at landscape scale
- Speaker: Naomi We think that the LS could be used by both actors present within a specific landscape as well as global actors who interact with a number of different landscapes through sourcing or investment We believe that LS could be valuable to forestry companies, agriculture and extractive industries present within a landscape, particularly to inform risk assessments, support cross-sectoral, multi-stakeholder action beyond the company’s direct operations and demonstrate sustainability leadership to attract finance and buyers For governments responsible for landscapes which may be considered high risk from a sustainability perspective, LS could help them to market themselves as a sustainable jurisdiction and attract buyers and investors For impact investors and development finance institutions, LS could provide additional information to inform risk assessments when making investment decisions, as well as an internationally accepted framework for measuring the impact of sustainability at landscape scale For supply chain companies and consumer facing brands sourcing natural resources, who do not have operations in the landscape, LS could help to identify lower risk supply sheds for preferential sourcing and enable a company to demonstrate leadership by looking at impacts beyond their direct supply chain
- Speaker Sophie The metrics we have developed cover the Principles which we consider to be the foundations for a sustainable landscape, cutting across 4 themes For each Principle, we have identified Outcomes, or Criteria, against which performance could be assessed. For example, within Ecosystem Services we have Criteria on Water quality and provisioning, soil health and climate regulation For each Principle, there will be some ‘Required’ Criteria which must be assessed, and some which will be optional or context dependent Indicators are the metrics used to measure progress towards each criterion; in some cases, there will also be flexibility to select from a range of Indicators to assess each Criterion It is our intention that a stakeholder would be allowed to make a claim regarding performance relating to one topic, but only if performance is assessed and reported on the platform against all topics. The reason for this is that we are aiming to promote holistic assessment of sustainability and do not want to create incentives for certain issues being addressed to the detriment of others
- Speaker Sophie In Costa Rica, we are focusing on a watershed which provides water for San Jose and the surrounding area and produces significant volumes of coffee for the export market We are collaborating with the Agua Tica water fund, which was set up to gather investment from public and private sector water users, such as some major soft drink companies, dairy producers and government infrastructure, to protect and restore the watershed. The water fund is interested in using the Landscape Standard to demonstrate the impact of their investment and activities across all of the key dimensions of sustainability. We believe that LS will also help the coffee industry to better understand key sustainability risks within the landscape and market themselves as sustainability leaders Two lines of work in the landscape to link to assessment: (1) to help the water fund show co-benefits and link to other landscape actors and (2) to help the coffee sector better manage large-scale issues (like water mgmt and erosion) and to help market coffee leaving the landscape Agua Tica Water Fund to secure water resources for and around San José, with a primary focus on landscape restoration Assess and communicate their progress to partners who are members of the fund, as well as to investors, donors or potential new partners (Agua Tica Fund) Link the Fund with initiatives operating within their area of operation (Coffee and Livestock NAMA) and other stakeholders towards common sustainability goals (coffee, cattle and dairy) Coffee producers and traders can use LS to assess landscape progress and threats and better position their products in market Showcase corporate responsibility or advances in municipal water management Help actors implementing sustainability actions strengthen the commercialization of their products (e.g. coffee) (Landscape commodity producers and traders) Show the landscape impact of their interventions (both direct and co- benefits) in a globally recognized, independent assessment Partners include: IUCN-ORMACC and Fundecor (Agua Tica Secretariat) •Costa Rica – Agua Tica water fund interested in using LS to show diverse outcomes of fund work, and to link to work/goals of other stakeholders in the landscape Costa Rica – watershed boundaries, link to water fund (different replicable model), corporate link: coca cola and pepsico
- Speaker: Naomi