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CAN meeting marked 20th Anniversary of AIT-UNEP collaboration
The Collaborative Action Network (CAN), held its Ninth Annual Meeting in Pathumthani, Thailand on 05 March 2009. This meeting was convened in commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of AIT-UNEP partnership and 50th Anniversary of AIT. CAN partners and donors of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) including Central Asia (CA), South Asia (SA), South East Asia (SEA), North East Asia (NEA), and South Pacific (SP) participated in the meeting. The Regional Advisors of UNEP also attended the Meeting as well as staff of UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP).
The 11th Advisory Committee Meeting at UNEP RRC.AP
The 11th Session of the Annual Advisory Committee Meeting of UNEP RRC.AP was held on 6 March 2009 at Pathumthani, Thailand. The meeting was opened by Prof. Nay Htun, Chairman of the Collaborative Action Network (CAN). He suggested a more dynamic role for RRC.AP to complement the efforts of the UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. All eight Advisors considered outcomes of the CAN meeting and the RRC.AP 2008 annual report, as well as the draft RRC.AP Strategy for 2009-13.
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 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
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World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Commemorated yearly on 5 June, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.The theme for WED 2009 is 'Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change'. It reflects the urgency for nations to agree on a new deal at the crucial climate convention meeting in Copenhagen some 180 days later in the year, and the links with overcoming poverty and improved management of forests.
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LATEST PUBLICATIONS
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
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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. |
 Shenzhen Environment Outlook (SEO) was officially launched in November 2007. It is the first GEO city report in China where the complete IEA methodlogy was fully applied. The process was a successful collaboration among Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University, Environmental Protection Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality (EPB), State Environmental Protection Administration and UNEP. SEO assessed the major environmental issues in the City, and discussed Human Well-being issues caused by the environmental changes. The report also used scenario development to analyse the unfolded future of the City.
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 Greater Mekong Environment Outlook - GMEO was released in December 2007. The report identified key environmental issues as great challegnes for GMS countries and international communities. Implications of social and environmental changes were discussed as cross-cutting issues. The report finally provides outlook and recommendations for policy review and development.
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 Sub-regional
Integrated Environment Assessment: Central Asia:The Central
Asian sub-region consists of the following sovereign countries –
Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Republic of Uzbekistan. After the collapse of former
Soviet Union the Central Asian countries, with their identical historical,
social and religious traditions have faced a number of similar economic,
social and environmental problems. Common environmental problems
in the subregion have galvanized the regional cooperation among
the countries, which consider the move towards environmental security
and sustainable development as priority. To
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of Climate Change on Himalayan Glaciers and Glacial Lakes: Case Studies
on GLOF and Associated Hazards in Nepal and Bhutan (2007):The
global mean temperature is expected to increase between 1.4 to 5.8ºC
over the next hundred years. The consequences of this change in global
climate are already being witnessed in the Himalayas where glaciers
and glacial lakes are changing at alarming rates. Himalayan glaciers
are retreating at rates ranging from 10 to 60m per year and many small
glaciers (<0.2 sq.km) have already disappeared. Our study shows
that the terminus of most of the high altitude valley glaciers in
Bhutan, China, and Nepal are retreating very fast; vertical shifts
as great as 100m have been recorded during the last fifty years and
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"To provide leadership and encourage partnerships in caring for the
environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and people
to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future
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