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Forest Accounts Workshop
January 31, 2014
Holiday Home
Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
 

  9:30 - 10:00

Registration
  10:00 - 10:30

Welcome and Workshop Objectives

Opening Remarks
Why Should Himachal Pradesh Build Forest Accounts
Urvashi Narain, World Bank

Opening Remarks
Shrikant Baldi and Tarun Shridhar, Government of Himachal Pradesh
  10:30 - 11L15

Keynote Address
Forests as Engine of Growth in HP
Sunita Narian, Center for Science and Environment, New Delhi

  11:15 - 11:30

Coffee/Tea Break

  11:30 - 12:30

Natural Capital Accounting in Himachal Pradesh - Feasibility and Planning Study
Haripriya Gundimeda, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

  12:30 - 1:15

HP Leading the Way
Panel discussion on how this work can brought into the national project
Vandana Agarwal, Ministry of Environment and Forests 

Environmental Accounting in India
James Mathew, Central Statistics Office
  1:15 - 2:00

Lunch Break

  2:00 - 2:45

Institutionalizing Forest Accounts
Presentation on Capacity Needs and Institutional Arrangements

Pradeep Chauhan, Department of Economics and Statistics

  2:45 - 3:45

Moderated Discussion on Key Issues
Policy Priorities, Prioritization of Accounts, Data sources, Institutional Arrangement, Capacity Needs
S. S. Negi
  3:45 - 4:00

Wrap up and Next Steps
R.K. Gupta, S.S. Negi, Urvashi Narain