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South Asian Air Pollution Control Books Launched at Intergovernmental Meetings


Mr. Mylvakanam Iyngararasan, Secretariat for the Malé Declaration on the Likely Effects of Transboundary Air Pollution in South Asia Secretariat at UNEP RRC.AP, presented three publications to His Excellency Patali Champika Ranawaka, Minister of Environment for Sri Lanka, during the opening ceremonies of the 5th Regional Stakeholders/Coordination Meeting and 10th Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting of Malé Declaration in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Regional Workshop on Global Environmental Outlook (GEO)/Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA)


UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA) in Asia and the Pacific organized the regional workshop on UNEP Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) / Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA) methodology from 8 to 11 September 2008 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Workshop objectives included: the discussion and sharing of experience on City IEA Methodology including sharing experience from some major cities in the region; the review of IEA process impacts and capacity-building on national and city-level; and the finalization of the customized version of GEO Resource Book for Asia and the Pacific. The workshop provided strategic inputs to enhance capacity of partners using GEO/IEA methodology, and to strengthen the assessment network.

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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.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS
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.


gmeo07Greater 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.

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 download ...


Impact 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 retreat rates of 30m per year are common.

Nepal Biodiversity Resource Book (2007): Nepal comprises of only 0.1% of land area on a global scale, but it possesses a disproportionately rich diversity of flora and fauna at genetic, species and ecosystem levels. The Biodiversity Profiles of Nepal 1996 (BPN) was the first initiative of its kind to document all the information on Nepal's biodiversity recorded till the year 1995. The objective of NBRB was to update 1996 Biodiversity Profiles focusing on the flora and fauna diversity implicitly in the Protected Areas, Ramsar Sites and World Heritage Sites of Nepal using published information between 1996 and 2005 and field verification.


The first impact assessment report on the ABC was launched on 9th August 2002 in London by UNEP Executive director Dr. Klaus Töpfer.
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