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In February 2010, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, brought together regional experts in Bali, Indonesia, to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The resulting booklet “Forests and climate change after Copenhagen: An Asia-Pacific perspective” was distributed widely and very well received. Building on the success of this initiative, in February 2011, RECOFTC and FAO, with support from the Norad-funded REDD-Net project, repeated the exercise. Eleven climate change and forestry experts gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to reflect on COP16 held in Cancun, Mexico, in November and December 2010. This booklet summarizes their responses to 12 key questions.