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AIT/UNEP RRC.AP held the 2009 ANNUAL STAFF RETREAT at the Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel, Pattaya, from 5-8 December 2009. The Retreat highlights were passionate discussions, presentations and video shows, while reviewing the progress made, current activities, challenges met, concerns & gaps and areas for improvement. More...


Dr. Aida N. Karazhanova, Head of Institutional Support Component of the AIT/UNEP RRC.AP joined the AIT delegation headed by Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) President, Prof. Said Irandoust to Astana and Almaty in Kazakhstan. More....


he Leadership Programme on Environment for Sustainable Development was co-organized by UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) and Tongji University through the UNEP-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development (IESD) in Shanghai. More...

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Scientific evidence on climate change is now well established. Data provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that the atmosphere already contains enough long-lived greenhouse gases (GHGs) to raise global temperature by over 2˚C by the end of the century. The Panel’s latest report also shows that it is possible to take corrective action, but this action must be taken immediately if we are to have a “reasonable chance” to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. More on Black Carbon e-Bulletin....
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CAN launched five publications of Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) for Central Asia, SDS for South Asia, SDS South Asian Youth version “We Hold our Future”, SDS for Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and "National Sustainable Development Strategies in GMS countries: Status, Trends, The Way Forward". Strategies provide vision of countries and propose sustainable development pathway for each of the three subregions, suggest mechanisms to enhance legislative and institutional set-up within each sub-region with the intention of improving interstate policy and implementation by mainstreaming environmental concerns in long-term planning for sustainable development of each subregion.The documents were prepared in a participatory process in consultation with concerned line ministries, intergovernmental, international and civil society organizations by SIC ISDC, Development Alternatives (India), Thailand Environment Institute (Thailand), with technical and financial facilitation from Regional Resource Center of Asia and the Pacific, supported by UNEP, the Government of Norway and Asian Development Bank (GMS component).More

A new report on Atmospheric Brown Cloud has been launched in Beijing on 13 November 2008. "One of the impacts of this Atmospheric Brown Cloud has been to mask the true nature of global warming on our planet," said Mr, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme at the launch in Beijing of a new report on the phenomenon. The event was widely covered by media and attracted the global attention of researcher and policy makers. More

The GEO-4 assessment has used the 1987 report – Our Common Future – as the baseline, it highlights both environment and development issues, focusing on human well-being and role of environment in development.
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Atmospheric Brown Clouds
Malé Declaration
UNEP Partnership on Environment for SD
Regional Forum on Environment and Health
Sustainable Development Network
   
   
Environment Knowledge Hub
   
   
Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia

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