Areas of Potential Cooperation to Realize Sinks Potential

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Areas of Potential Cooperation to Realize Sinks
Potential

• Improve models to handle socioeconomic and
  technical issues.
• Perform pilot project analyses issues.
• Stimulate development of standard methods
  guidance for US and developing country offsets.
• Assist key countries in evaluation of
  international offsets opportunities, barriers,
  institutional arrangements.
• Dialog on potential activities issues with
  stakeholders.
• Assess rural livelihood, biodiversity effects.

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EPA-LBNL FORCLIMIT Network Capacity Building

• FORCLIMIT
• Forestry and Climate Change Mitigation Network
  Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
• Objectives
• Assist LULUCF inventory improvement data,
  methods
• Assess options for forest maintenance, expansion,
  improved management, GHG benefits.
• Dialog among government, private, NGO, experts.
• Assess 1-3 case studies technical, financial,
  rural livelihood, sustainable development
  aspects.

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The FORCLIMIT Network Potential Cooperation in
India?

• Identify priority areas for research cooperation
• Establish working groups or relationships
• Seek stakeholder input from the private sector,
  NGOs, and government institutions in India and
  U.S.
• Identify their needs, questions, policy concerns,
  technical issues
• Select 1-2 case studies for intensive analysis of
  technical issues
• Schedule set of activities over 1-2 years say,
  outreach and stakeholder input workshops in May
  or June, and in December, 2003??
• Schedule for publishing results