Solutions to measuring and managing economic risks and Opportunities in Sustainable ocean development (SOS)

衡量和管理可持续海洋开发 (SOS) 经济风险和机遇的解决方案

• 批准号: NE/W009668/1
• 负责人: Sarah Taylor
• 金额: $ 5.02万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FW009668%2F1
• 关键词: Solutions; measuring; managing; economic; risks

Marine and coastal ecosystems are major contributors to human well-being and economic development. Yet, our ability to account for the environmental, economic, and social value of the ocean is undermined by relevant knowledge and evidence being scattered between different institutions and expert communities. There is an urgent need to interlink data, statistics, and communities to embed the use of connected evidence in laws, policies, and development planning. The Dasgupta review calls for changing measures of economic success and new economic models which properly account for human interaction with and dependence on nature. The sustainable development of the ocean economy requires such a model or system for measuring progress. Although the standard system of national accounting provides a solid foundation for doing so, the scope of the accounts needs expansion to include the role of nature in the economy. Natural capital accounting (NCA) is a necessary step towards understanding the place of nature's services in our economies. It offers us a way to estimate the impact of policies on natural capital, which is a prerequisite for policy analysis. Through initial engagement with NCA users within government departments in two countries (UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and South African Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DFFE)) it was established that there is a need for innovative tools to improve and simplify the use of NCA data in decision making, such as economic analysis of trade-offs in financing coastal and marine development. This fellowship proposes to improve the link between relevant government stakeholders (users of NCA and economic models) to organisations and partnerships (owners of research, data, and practical knowledge) to co-produce solutions to measuring and managing economic risks and opportunities in sustainable ocean development.The Dasgupta review argues that international cooperation in the construction of national natural capital accounts and the sharing of data would improve decision-making around the world. Additionally, the harmonisation of national accounts should be coupled with decision support tools to increase the functionality of national NCA. The suggested approach to this Knowledge Exchange (KE) fellowship is therefore to facilitate connecting SA and UK NCA users to evidence-based tools for ocean economy investment and policy impact evaluations. The outcome therefore aims to inform the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) on potential tools and materials to promote worldwide consistency for national level nature-related reporting.Through two case studies, one in South Africa and the other in the UK, the fellowship will aim to demonstrate the use of an existing state-of-the-art regional computable general equilibrium economic (CGE) model as a tool that uses national NCA data to evaluate the impacts of different environmental policies on the health and wealth of the ocean economy and the communities that depend on it. Users of CGE models can create versatile policy and investment scenarios to model the economy-wide impact, which is useful for risk policy management and to guide financial sector to optimal areas for investment into the blue economy. The outputs of the case studies, being the application of the existing SA CGE model and the facilitation of a blueprint for an updated UK CGE model, will contribute to the technical assistance required to ensure long-term impact and application of natural capital accounting. The identified areas of key interest to both groups of stakeholders overlap (DFFE and Defra), potentially allowing the fellowship to address the needs of both groups at once and in a unified way through two parallel national level case studies.

海洋和沿海生态系统是人类福祉和经济发展的主要贡献者。然而，我们解决海洋环境，经济和社会价值的能力受到了相关知识和证据分散在不同机构和专家社区之间的能力。迫切需要将数据，统计数据和社区互联，以将连接证据的使用嵌入法律，政策和发展计划中。 Dasgupta审查要求改变经济成功的衡量标准和新的经济模型，这些模式适当地解释了人类与自然的互动和依赖。海洋经济的可持续发展需要这样的模型或系统来衡量进步。尽管国家会计的标准系统为此提供了坚实的基础，但帐户范围需要扩展，以包括自然在经济中的作用。自然资本会计（NCA）是了解自然服务在我们经济体中的地位的必要步骤。它为我们提供了一种估计政策对自然资本的影响的方法，这是进行政策分析的先决条件。通过与两个国家 /地区政府部门内的NCA用户的初步接触（英国环境，食品和农村事务部（DEFRA）以及南非环境，林业和渔业部（DFFE）（DFFE）），已经确定，需要创新的工具来改善和简化NCA数据在决策中的使用，例如在筹集沿海沿海地区和海洋和海洋和海洋和海洋和海洋和海洋上的经济分析。该团契建议将相关政府利益相关者（NCA和经济模型的用户）与组织，数据和实践知识的所有者（所有人）与共同生产解决方案来衡量和管理可持续海洋发展的经济风险和机遇的解决方案之间的联系。达斯古普（Dasgupta此外，国民账户的协调应与决策支持工具相结合，以提高国家NCA的功能。因此，提出的这种知识交流的方法（KE）奖学金是为了促进将SA和UK NCA用户连接到基于证据的海洋经济投资和政策影响评估的工具。因此，结果旨在告知潜在工具和材料的自然有关的财务披露（TNFD），以促进与国家一级与自然相关的报告的一致性。通过两个案例研究，一个在南非，另一个在英国，该研究金将旨在证明使用一个现有的现有的一般性计算模型（CEGE）的工具（c），该工具将其用作一般性的一般性数据（c）。关于海洋经济的健康和财富的环境政策及其依赖它的社区。 CGE模型的用户可以创建多功能政策和投资方案，以模拟整个经济影响的影响，这对于风险政策管理非常有用，并指导金融部门最佳投资蓝色经济。案例研究的输出是现有的SA CGE模型的应用，并为更新的UK CGE模型提供了蓝图的促进，这将有助于确保长期影响和应用自然资本会计所需的技术援助。两组利益相关者的关键关键领域重叠（DFFE和DEFRA），有可能允许奖学金通过两个平行的国家级案例研究，并以统一的方式立即解决这两个群体的需求。