PES: Getting Started in Marine and Coastal Ecosystems – A Primer

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PES: Getting Started in Marine and Coastal Ecosystems – A Primer

December 1, 2015

The primer offers guidance on how to assess the potential for marine and coastal payments for ecosystem services (PES) and provides pointers for designing and planning PES transactions. It describes: the opportunities and risks of PES schemes; steps to developing PES projects; and considerations of PES for poverty reduction.

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