1. 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.

2. Emerging Issues cont’d
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 .

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

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