Vientiane, Lao PDR
28th January 2008The Second GMS Environment Ministers Meeting (EMM-2) was held in Don Chan Palace Hotel in Vientiane, Lao PDR on 29 January 2008. The theme of the meeting was "Sustainable Natural Resource Use for Economic Competitiveness."
The meeting took stock of achievements of the GMS Core Environment Program (CEP) since its inception in April 2006 and discussed emerging environment, conservation and poverty reduction issues such as climate change, global warming and their effects on socio-economic growth and development. The event featured the Environment Forum and Eco-Exhibition where private and non-government organizations were invited to exhibit technologies, products or services that were environmentally sound, benign and suitable for utilization in the GMS.
Meeting participants included the GMS delegations from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, PRC, Thailand and Viet Nam. Also in attendance as observers were program donors and implementing partners, multilateral and bilateral agencies, NGOs and representatives of the private sector. The meeting was co-chaired by H.E. Madame Khempheng Pholsena, Minister to the Prime Ministers' Office, Head of Water Resource and Environment Administration, Lao PDR and Mr. C. Lawrence Greenwood, Jr., Vice President of the Asian Development Bank.
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