Emerging issues

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Emerging issues

• Mobilizing buyers - Identifying and targeting
  ecosystem service buyers
• Capacity building and awareness raising.
• Information sharing packaging and targeting.
• Policy and legal frameworks.
• Mobilizing ecosystem sellers stewards.
• Structuring of deals roles for different
  players sharing of benefits.
• Packaging/defining the ecosystem product/service.

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Emerging Issues contd

• Need to influence international debate in vie of
  forestry carbon.
• Property rights and land tenure.
• Market segmentation regulatory Vs Voluntary
  local e.g. watershed Vs international markets.
• Pricing of carbon
• PES initiative design issues - development of
  quality PES pro-poor PES, poverty reduction.
• Development of PES models with own rules and
  standards e.g. plan vivo, CCBA.
• Position of civil society organizations to
  influence COP decisions in view of Pro-poor PES
  e.g. Carbon sequestration and small scale energy
  projects.
• Regional network developmen
• Risks and the nature of contracts
• Direct vs indirect payments
• .

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• What are the most strategic things that Katoomba
  can do to MOBILISE BUYERS?

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• What is the most important thing that Katoomba
  can do to support policy and institutional
  development for scaling up PES?