The purpose of the project is focus on developing bi-lateral environmental cooperation projects with friendly Central American nations in accordance with the UNFCCC Guidelines for mutual sustainable development. A 2006 ministers’ Meeting in October, 2006 was held for developing a Ministers’ Statement in framing the ground as mutual agreement for the implementation on cooperation projects during the period of 2006 to 2009. It also adoped as the legal process to extend our preliminary CDM projects in Central America as international joint activities on GHG reduction and enrolling in the international environmental arena. This event would be helpful for our arduous foreign relationships circumstance with other countries and the following Ministers’s Meeting with friendly Pacific nations as major experience. An earlier trip in July, 2006 to El Salvador was making arrangement for the meeting. The works on Ministers Meeting has been well performed in October at Taipei smoothly with attendees from 7 CA nations, including Belize, Dominica the Republic, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Among them were ministers from Dominica the Republic, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Nicaragua attending personally. The agenda included the premeeting, opening, minister round meeting, bilateral meetings, seminar of experts, and Business Forum. It has been concluded on endorsing the Ministers’ Statement with action plan on cooperation in front of a press conference. All CA attendees went to meet the President before leaving Taiwan. The communications channels with the attendees will be sustained continuously. In subsequence the implementation on the action plan was extended with procedure define and projects on EEP project between CA countries and Taiwan. The second part of the work was focus on basic evaluation on CA local MARKAL Model development, cooperation projects and basics of CDM to be extended in CA area, including principles, methodologies and case studies. Another visiting to CA was conducted in July to set up the Liaison Office at San Salvador, invite the new environmental minister, Mr. Carlos Guerrero, to viste Taiwan, and site evaluation of an air quality monitoring station to be set up at the Guatemala city as a environmental cooperation project with a donation emblem. A meeting with MALKAL personnel in the two countries revealed the current situation to develop the effort on MARKAL regional model and databases. A scheme in training the Mongolian MARKAL operating personnel was implemented in October 21~26, 2006, as part of the project. Further development in the cooperation will be developed based on the situation between the Mongolian Government and our Government.

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