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Final report
ITTO 2009: Final
report summary, 2p.
Progress report
November 2008
In their November 2008 session, the Committees
on Forest Industry and on Economic Information and Market Intelligence
were informed that since the previous report submitted to the Committees
at the Forty-first Session in November 2007, further progress has been
achieved in the implementation of the project. To date, 18 of the 23 project
activities have been completed, resulting in the realization of 4 of the
7 project outputs namely
- Output 1.1 - Report on investigation of international
experiences of marketing for forest environmental services (FES), Output
1.2 - Investigation on domestic cases and demand-supply analysis of
FES,
- Output 1.3 - Consultation meeting of national and international
specialists on marketing environmental services of China's tropical
forests, and
- Output 1.5 - A website on project established.
- Output 1.4 - Overall report on investigation on marketing
for environmental services of tropical forests in China, two activities
have been completed while the third, activity 1.4.3 - revision, translation,
publishing and submission of overall report, has attained 95% progress
in implementation.
- Output 2.1 - Establishment of the first experimental
agency in China for market trading of tropical forest environment services,
two of its activities have been completed. The remaining two activities,
namely activity 2.1.3 - establishment of the agency and activity 2.1.4
- initial market development, have only achieved 50% progress in implementation,
largely due to the time taken for governmental procedures relating to
the administrative examination and approval of the agency.
- Output 2.2 - Experiments on market trading of environmental
services of tropical forests in China, two of the three activities have
been completed, with the remaining activity 2.2.3 - submission of report
on case studies of two real deals, having attained 95% progress in implementation.
In view of the foregoing, the duration for the implementation of the
project has been extended to 31 December 2008 without additional ITTO
funding.
The implementing agency has so far submitted 6 project progress
reports on schedule. The reports of the first and second annual financial
audit of the project for the period ending 31 December 2006 and 31 December
2007 had also been submitted on time. Three monitoring missions and meetings
of the Project Technical Meeting had been conducted and all ITTO funds
had been disbursed to the implementing agency.
November 2007
Since the reporting of November 2006, further progress has
been achieved in the implementation of the project. To-date, three project
outputs have been realized following the completion
of relevant project activities. These are:
- Report on investigation of international experiences
in marketing of forest environmental services (FES).
- Investigation on domestic cases and demand-supply analysis
of FES.
- Consultation meeting of specialists in marketing environmental
services of China’s tropical forests.
For the fourth Output “Overall report on investigations
on marketing for environmental services of tropical forests in China”,
two activities namely, the “draft of the overall report” and
the” joint revision of the draft of the overall report by relevant
parties”, have been completed while the progress in the implementation
of the remaining activity, “revision, translation, publishing and
submission of the overall report has reached 50%.” Likewise for the
fifth Output “Establishment of the project website”, the design
and establishment of the website has been completed while progress in
the implementation of activity “maintenance of the website”
has reached 60%.
With the satisfactory progress in the implementation and
realization of the foregoing activities and outputs respectively, the
project is on course towards achieving its Specific Objective 1 “To
propose an optional marketing model for environmental services of tropical
forests in China”. The implementing agency has begun to focus on
the implementation and realization of activities and outputs related to
its Specific Objective 2, “To start the marketing process of China’s
tropical forest environmental services”.
For the Output “Establishment of the first experimental
agency in China for market trading of tropical FES”, the progress
in the implementation of activity “formulation of plans and constitution
for the establishment of the agency has reached 95%”, while the implementation
of the remaining activities, namely the mobilization of specialists to
work for the agency, “Establishment of the agency” and activity,
“Initial market development” is about to begin. Similarly, for
Output “ Experiments on market trading of environmental services
of tropical forests in China”, the progress in the implementation
of the activity “facilitating one deal of international or domestic
market trading of carbon storage service of China’s tropical forests”
and activity “ facilitating one deal of market trading of water conservation
(or alternatively, landscape) services” has reached 30%. The remaining
activity, “ submission of the report on the case studies of the two
real deals”, is scheduled for implementation in 2008.
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