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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is asking for comments on a new guide on Payments for Ecosystem Services.
The guide covers a range of schemes where Defra says the beneficiaries, or users, of ecosystem services provide payment to the stewards, or providers of those services.
Utilities are key players in maintaining ecosystems, for example the draft Guide highlights the case where a water utility makes arrangements via a broker to make payments to farmers who will employ water-sensitive management practices in a key catchment. Other examples include making payments to a landowner to provide carbon sequestration.
Defra has called for comments on the draft Guide, published here, by 21 September.
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