Job Description
NGO Jobs, UNEP Jobs.
Responsibilities
The UNEP consultant will:
- Participate in the co-development of specific EBA scenarios and NBS measures with UNEP staff and Lao stakeholders Liaise with Lead Valuation Consultant and/or UNEP-TEN staff to identify the ecosystem services that could be impacted by these EBA scenarios
- Work with Lead Valuation Consultant and/or UNEP-TEN staff to determine data requirements for valuation of EBA scenarios
- Scope and plan data collection for a valuation of ecosystem services provided by EBA scenarios in four cities
- Locate the data required to conduct a spatially-explicit assessment of the benefits of EBA measures, including existing maps and spatial data layers from reports, cost estimates from management plans and public works departments, etc., and translate a description of the data to English.
- Work with lead valuation consultant to organize data to enable estimation of the marginal economic value of ecosystem services due to the EBA measures, relative to a do-nothing option that accounts for projected climate change impacts.
Qualifications
- An advanced university degree in Economics, Applied or Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, or a related field is required.
- A first university degree with a combination of two (2) years professional and academic qualifications may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
- A minimum of two (2) years of professional working experience in the field of economic assessment, ecosystem services modeling, ecosystem services valuation, or ecosystem-based adaptation assessment is required.
- An understanding of the political economy of environment and development planning in Lao PDR is required.
How to Apply
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