Post-COP16 Consultation Workshop held

With the participation of around 50 civil society representatives, government officials, media and others, Post-COP16 Consultation workshop of the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) of UNFCCC was held in Kathmandu on 3rd January, 2010.

 Addressing the program Ex. Environment Minister, Ganesh Shah expresses gratitude to the organizers for continuing this culture of sharing updates of climate negotiations. He also stresses that the government as well as civil society at the national level should focused on better utilization of climate funding to address our development needs.

 Mr. Batu Krishna Uprety, Joint Secretary and Chief of Climate Change Division at Ministry of Environment briefly shared about government intervention and involvement at COP16 and recent initiatives taken by the ministry at national level. According to him, GoN organized meeting of Mountainous countries, press briefings and other important bilateral. Mr. Uprety on behalf of Nepal is also re-elected for the LDC Expert Group (LEG) member.

 In the program, Mr. Manjeet Dhakal of Clean Energy Nepal and Mr. Raju Chettri to United Mission shared about the shared about the outcomes of COP16 and civil society perspective respectively. Likewise, Mr. Dipesh Chapagain and Mr. Abhishek Shrestha discuss about National Level activity and youth involvement at Cop16 respectively.

 The panel discussion was facilitated by Mr. Bhushan Tuladhar, Coordinator of CCNN and the program concluded with the lunching of Jalbau Sarokar (Climate Concern), a special edition on CCNN newsletter with Cancun updates. 
 

Please find the presentations of the workshop:

Presenttaion 1:Overview of COP16 by Manjeet Dhakal

Presentation 2: Goverment Participartion by Batu K Uprety

Presentation 3: Civil Society Prespective by Raju Chettri

Presentation 4: National Campaign by Dipesh Chapagain

Presentation 5: Youth Participartion by Abhishek Shrestha