Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
26th January 2015Theme: Designing mechanisms and building partnerships for the strategic planning and management of transboundary and other biodiversity landscapes
Overview
Biodiversity landscapes constitute a large proportion of the natural capital remaining in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). They are a rich repository of globally important biodiversity, including many endemic and endangered species, and provide vital ecosystem services. This wealth of natural capital underpins the subregion’s security in terms of energy, food, and water. Seven of these landscapes cut across international borders. These transboundary biodiversity landscapes (TBLs), which are the focus of the GMS Core Environment Program, lie in juxtaposition to the GMS economic corridors, providing both challenges and opportunities for their effective management and conservation.
Landscape-scale conservation management is a major challenge with respect to sustaining natural capital in the GMS, especially against a backdrop of rapid economic development. The Fourth GMS Environment Ministers’ Meeting (EMM4) provided a timely opportunity to explore the potential for collaborative approaches to improve land-use planning and management at landscape scales, especially across international borders.
The Forum aimed to bring together a wide range of government, development, and other partners from GMS countries and further afield to consider the priority enabling conditions and mechanisms necessary to address the challenges of securing and enhancing natural capital at landscape scales. The outputs fed into the Natural Capital Dialogue on the 28 January and be consolidated in an Action Plan.
Objectives
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Xiengkhouang, Lao PDR
Date: 1 to 3 April 2013
Cross-sector collaboration is central to the long-term success of the GMS Economic Cooperation Program, particularly among inter-dependent sectors such agriculture and environment.
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ADB SPEECH-28 June 2013
Speech by ADB Vice-President Stephen P. Groff on 28 June 2013 at the Economic Growth in Southeast Asia: Integration, Sustainability, and Capacity Development, co-hosted by WWF USA and George Washington School of International Affairs in the United States
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