Question 2: How do businesses and regulatory frameworks help in shaping the potential benefit

to the poor from payment for ecosystem services? 

Answer:

1. Government regulations mandate the businesses to invest 2% of its profit for the
Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) activities.
2. Businesses invest this in uplifting the social communities by providing services like
reducing carbon footprints, improving labor policies, making corporate policies that
benefit the environment, and investing in social upliftment projects.
3. This investment in terms of social or monetary is transferred to the rural population for
safe guarding the ecosystem.
4. The government and business in order to protect the environment also brings in more
eco-friendly and superior technological products that help in a better standard of living
for the society.
5. Government also promotes technology like solar power, wind power and water power in
the region that also ensures that pollution is kept under-check.
6. Also, these initiatives help maintain the local environmental status quo like soil fertility,
pure air and less pollution.