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Day 2
Review of Day 1 results
The facilitator presented the recommendations on improving <strong>national</strong> activities in the context of
climate change, which resulted from the discussions on the first day of the workshop:
• To establish cooperation among departments and organizations for a joint data analysis and
assessment of expenses and profits from the greenhouse gas emissions control (increased
energy efficiency, energy conservation, minimization of technological natural gas losses, etc.).
To create an institutional mechanism for interdepartmental coordination
o Establishment of sectoral groups to develop a greenhouse gas inventory in the
sectors
• Capacity building of policy makers on key negotiation issues prior to the conference of parties
and to develop a <strong>national</strong> programme on climate change (participation of Turkmenistan in the
United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change) involving key sectors of the
<strong>national</strong> economy
• To integrate the above programme into the National Programme of Social and Economic
Development up to 2020
o Assessment of expenses, profits and sources of financing (including future
mechanisms of agreement on climate related problems after 2012) – economic
analysis of profits and expenses of different enterprises as far as consequences of
climate change are concerned
o Objective: to reduce the carbon intensity of the economy and to take adaptation
actions
o Elaboration of methods and amendments to the statistical reporting forms. The
amendment suggestions should be sent to the State Statistical Agency. Guidelines
should be worked out for individual sectors that would make it possible to report
under the UNFCCC at inter<strong>national</strong> level (including the new agreement after 2012)
o Accounting and gradual reduction of specific natural gas consumption on
technological pipeline maintenance
o Development of the Caspian coastal area plan taking into account the principles of
sustainable development as well as greenhouse gas emissions assessment
• To use encouraging mechanisms
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Administrative actions (removal of administrative barriers impeding the energy
conservation as well as different financing of state enterprises when the energy/funds
saved are transferred to the next financial year or used for their own needs)
o Rewards
o Fiscal actions (in the long term), gradual adjustment of the electricity and gas tariffs to
the market ones
o Claims to foreign companies regarding energy efficiency and gas consumption rates
• Educational actions
o To prepare population for the gradual adjustment of the electricity and gas tariffs to
the market ones
o Awareness of electricity and gas conservation
o School course on the ecologically sustainable lifestyle
• To adapt existing sectoral projects to the CDM participation.
Land-use, land-use change and forestry
A. Kokorin presented the main concepts and the terms applied in the sector of land-use, land-use
change and forestry,, a course of inter<strong>national</strong> negotiations and problems relevant to LULUCF
projects in terms of the Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism. Besides, the
lecturer marked the key LULUCF problems considered within the Bali Action Plan, and advantages of
Sylvan projects.
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