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Dehradun (The Hawk): On the third and final day of the Workshop, two session were held on 'Enhancing carbon sequestration potential and assessment of forest carbon stocks' and 'Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Management (SLEM) knowledge sharing and dissemination'. Regular monitoring of carbon exchange over forest ecosystems is a key to climate policy making decision due to large carbon sequestration potential of the forest ecosystems. Initiatives on forest carbon assessments in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and India was discussed by respective speakers representing their countries. Need for developing a domestic forest carbon market in India through active participation of ICFRE was deliberated. With reference to carbon monitoring in Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines and India,the speaker from Japan highlighted the role of geospatial data and advance machine learning to mitigate the climate change and achieve several SDGs which would help the policy makers for better implementation of Paris agreement and forest management practices for REDD+ assessment.  To measure the carbon fluxes, the EddyCovariance Flux towers play a major role. Flux towers have been established in nine different locations of India by NRSC and IIRS, while two towers in MP and Chhattisgarh by ICFRE.Similarly, Asia Flux Network in Sarawak, Malaysia has identified the factors responsible for peatlands (a unique wetland ecosystem) carbon balance as well as carbon sequestration.Under UNFCCC, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is playing a significant role in fund flow for achieving Paris Agreement goals. GCF at present has approved budget of US$11 billion of investment in over 200 projects worldwide of which 84 being in the forestry sector. GCFs role in approaching climate financ ...