Opening Event
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Thursday, March 8, 2007
5:30 pm – Introductory address
6:00 pm – Welcoming speech by Dr Olman Segura Bonilla, President of Universidad Nacional Autonóma de Costa Rica (UNA).
7:00 pm – Plenary address: Robert Costanza, Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
8:00 – Cocktails
Friday, March 9
8:00 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – Plenary: What are Ecosystem Services?
10:00 am – Plenary: What are Payments for Ecosystem Services?
11:00 am – Panel: The Costa Rican Experience
Noon – Lunch
1:00 pm – Panel: Experience Elsewhere
2:00 pm – Panel: Technical Improvements
3:00 pm – Panel: Implementation and Governance
5:00 pm – Closing address
6:00 pm – Dinner and Speaker
7:00 pm – Heredia Declaration on Payments for Ecosystem Services
Field Trips
Saturday, March 10
Explore a PES scheme that provides a public good
Visit an upstream provider and a downstream beneficiary
Sunday, March 11
Explore a PES scheme that provides a market good
Visit an upstream provider and a downstream beneficiary
Atelier
Monday, March 12
Presentation of Pressing Problems
8:00 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Presentations of pressing problems from Brazil, Caribbean and the Pacific Northwest
Discuss the challenges in developing global schemes
6:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 pm – Working groups
Tuesday, March 13
Relevant Theory
8:00 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – Overview of Payments for Ecosystem Services
10:00 am – Common property regimes
11:00 am – Policy principles and market mechanisms
Noon – Lunch
1:00 pm – Legal and political issues
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm – Working groups
6:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 pm to 8:00 – Working groups
Wednesday, March 14
Field Trip
8:00 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – Site tour
10:00 am – Field lecture on voluntary payment schemes
11:00 am – Field lecture on site owners and certification
Noon – Lunch
1:00 pm – Field lecture on free riding by the developed nations
2:00 pm – Return
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm – Working groups
6:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Working groups
Thursday, March 15
Working groups all day
Friday, March 16
Working groups
3:00 pm – Final presentations
6:00 pm – Dinner and Farewell party
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