Centre national de la propriété forestière

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) vs Water Framework Directive (WFD) targets (2016-2020).

The CNPF's expertise on forest-water partnerships is expected in this project. The CNPF is involved in two working groups :

• the first one seeks to assess the effectiveness of afforestation to reduce diffuse agricultural pollution,
• the second one relates to payments for environmental services (PES) and the estimation of cost-effectiveness measures of afforestation.

• Households would be prepared to pay up to 50 € extra per year for tap water from woodland sources.
  

•  The more woodlands we have, the cheaper the water.
  

  These two results clearly show the value of forest services.

  Maintaining plant cover and soil protection, extensive management, low nitrates in the water leaching into the ground, purifying functions and natural image : foresters have every reason to take pride in their role in preserving clean drinking water resources - a role that deserves to be given greater prominence.

This leaflet* to download presents the mains results from a CNPF-IDF and INRA joint project called “ Forests and Water ”, whose purpose is to develop methods capable of producing reliable economic figures on the environmental services rendered by forests.

More details in French, in section “Forêt et eau” at foretpriveefrancaise.com

Contacts :

• Julien FIQUEPRON, Water and Forests engineer
  Institut pour le Développement Forestier / CNPF
  Maison de la Forêt - 11 rue de la Commanderie - 54000 NANCY (France)
  julien.fiquepron@cnpf.fr
• Olivier PICARD, Head of Research and Development
  Institut pour le Développement Forestier / CNPF
  47 rue de Chaillot - 75116 PARIS (France)
  olivier.picard@cnpf.fr