This meeting will review methods for valuing ecosystems services, existing legal and contractual arrangements for the payment of ecosystems services and challenges in their practical implementation. It will also consider experiences in the UNECE region and elsewhere. The Seminar is being organized by the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, the UNECE Secretariat of the Water Convention, the Ramsar Convention Secretariat and IUCN – the World Conservation Union.  

dates: 10-11 October 2005  
location: Geneva, Switzerland  
contact: Water Convention Secretariat, UNECE, Geneva  
phone: 41-22-917-2373 or 2463  
fax: 41-22-917-0107  
e-mail: water.convention@unece.org  
www: http://www.unece.org/env/water/