Coastal Ecosystems- Services and Values: Global Conference on Land-Oceans Connections - ‘Towards Greener Coastal Economy’

Session Objectives - To identify effective tools/instruments/policies to maintain and protect the multiple benefits that coastal ecosystem services provide, including mitigation and adaptation. To find the most appropriate approaches for embedding the values of ecosystem services in management and adaptation actions for coastal habitats. Expected recommendations - Appropriate tools/instruments/policies to maintain and protect ecosystem services in coastal habitats; Effective ways to incorporate ecosystem services into coastal habitat management, adaptation and mitigation decision-making; Enabling factors for considering ecosystem services in policy setting, e.g. collaborative platforms, capacity, incentives