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Keywords: tender instruments, additionality, conservation grants JEL classification: Q58, Q570, Q55OECD Environment working papers are available at www.oecd.org/env/workingpapers.htm
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© OECD 2015You can copy, download or print OECD content for your own use, and you can include excerpts from OECD publications, databases and multimedia products in your own documents, presentations, blogs, websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgement of OECD as source and copyright owner is given.All requests for commercial use and translation rights should be submitted to rights@oecd.org.ENV/WKP(2015)6 3 ABSTRACT A striking variety of policy instruments are used in Victoria, Australia to achieve conservation objectives. These include highly active voluntary programmes, a variety of conservation grants, and a reverse auction for the provision of ecosystem services, known as EcoTender. An open question regarding such payments for ecosystem services (i.e. grants and tenders) is whether they achieve 'additionality.' That is, do they lead to conservation above the status quo? Critics of these instruments allege that the majority of funds ...