Ministry of Environment and Forests & USEPA

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Agenda

"Climate Change Mitigation Projects in India; Methodology Workshop"
Venue : Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Date : July 10 – 12, 2003

Time		Speaker
Day 1 (10^th July 2003)
09.30 – 09.45	Welcome and Introduction to the workshop	Ravindranath
09.45 – 10.00	MoEF – USEPA project activities and workshop objectives	Ken Andrasko
10.00 – 10.15	MoEF – USEPA project activities and workshop objectives	MoEF / Satyanarayana
10.15 - 10.45	Inauguration of the workshop	DG – ICFRE
10.45 - 11.00	Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.30	Climate change mitigation – role of forest sector and forestry projects – Global negotiations	Jayant Sathaye
11.30 – 12.00	Methodological issues in forest sector mitigation projects	Ken Andrasko
12.00 – 12.30	Forest sector mitigation opportunities, potential and costs in India	Ravindranath
12.30 – 1.00	PROCOMAP MODEL – Introduction	Jayant Sathaye
01.00 – 02.00	Lunch
02.00 – 03.30	Demonstration of the model	Sudha / Jayant Sathaye
03.30 – 03.45	Coffee Break
03.45 – 04.15	Application of PROCOMAP model with an example from Adilabad	Ravindranath Indu K Murthy
04.15 – 05.00	i. Approach to developing forest sector mitigation projects in India OR ii. Estimation of biomass; above ground, below ground and litter for forestry projects	Neeta Hooda
05.00 – 05.30	Case study of a forestry mitigation project – The Tamarind project	Anandi Sharan

DAY 2 (11^th July 2003)
	Methodology for Carbon Inventory –Measurement & Monitoring
9.30 - 10.30	Sampling strategy, methods, parameters and field methods for biomass and soil carbon estimation	Ravindranath
10.30 – 11.00	Methods of biomass estimation for baseline establishment	Indu K Murthy
11.00 – 11.15	Coffee Break
11.15 – 11.45	Methods for leakage estimation	Sudha
11.45 – 12.30	Discussion on methodology	Ravindranath
12.30 – 01.00	Institutional issues in forestry mitigation projects	T P Singh
01.00 – 02.00	Lunch
02.00 - 02.20	Opportunities for afforestation and reforestation projects for mitigation of climate change in Karnataka	Conservator of forests, Bangalore Circle
02.20 - 02.40	Opportunities for afforestation and reforestation projects for mitigation of climate change in Uttaranchal	Conservator of Forests, Uttaranchal
02.40 – 03.15	Data needs and plan of work for: Case studies on project development Assessment at state level	Ravindranath Jayant Sathaye
03.15 – 03.30	Coffee Break
03.30 - 04.00	Plan for analysis, report writing and national workshop	Ken Andrasko Jayant Sathaye
04.00 - 04.15	Suggestions from ICFRE	Neeta Hooda
04.15 – 04.30	Discussion and Conclusion and plan for the future	Ravindranath
04.30 onwards	Hands on Experience (PROCOMAP)	Sudha & participants

Day 3 (12^th July 2003)
Field Visit to: Tamarind project - Bagepalli and JFM villages