GMS Environment Media Roundup – June 2014

Toward Green Growth in ASEAN

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries have exhibited high growth rates over the past decades, weathering even the worst of the global financial crisis. This impressive growth and accompanying rise in household income has brought great benefits to the ASEAN population of nearly 600 million, including declining poverty and strengthened social safety nets in many countries.

Source: Asia Foundation

News Release: Governments Unveil New Tools for Savings in Natural Capital and Creating a Green Economy

Ha Noi, Viet Nam-29 May 2014. A group of countries has come together to create new pathways for an inclusive green economy. They are gathering in Ha Noi, Viet Nam on 29-30 May to tell their success stories and exchange innovative ideas and research results in a ‘Policy Dialogue on Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Development Decisions: Bringing Environment to the Center Stage’.

Investing in sustainable landscapes – ADB at the Forests Asia Summit (video)

Mobilizing viable investments to effectively protect and enhance natural resource stocks and ecosystem services in Asia’s landscapes is one of the region’s most challenging sustainable development issues. 

GEF Commits $1 million to CEP for Transboundary Landscape Collaboration

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved nearly $1 million for the Core Environment Program (CEP) to strengthen regional collaboration on transboundary landscapes.  The funding was allocated under GEF’s Greater Mekong Subregion Forests and Biodiversity Program (GMS-FBP).

GMS Officials Look for Transport and Energy Solutions for Climate Change

Transport and energy officials from the six GMS countries are in Bangkok this week to deepen their understanding of transport and energy in the context of climate change and to brainstorm ideas for mitigation and adaptation projects.

ADB News:Investments in natural capital crucial to sustain economic growth in the GMS

25 March 2014

NAY PYI TAW, MYANMAR – Member countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion face losing recent development gains unless they invest more to secure natural resource stocks, senior officials from the six countries heard at a meeting in Myanmar today.