Tag Arhcives : Nature Conservation and Biodiversity

• News - ASEAN Member States join negotiations on global agreement to safeguard all life on earth

  ASEAN Member States (AMS) and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), representatives from State Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), experts, indigenous peoples and communities, and stakeholders from around the world, open talks this week on a global agreement to safeguard life on earth, in all its forms. This first meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is being held this 27 to 30 August 2019, in Nairobi, Keny

• Publication - ASEAN Statement on CITES on the Occasion of the Thirteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, Bangkok

  Aware that the countries of ASEAN are rich in biodiversity and home to many endangered species of wild fauna and flora; Recognizing the conservation actions and commitments that have already been made with respect to the species regulated by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) through its Decisions and Resolutions; Acknowledging the progress made at the national and ASEAN levels in promoting sustainable use of wild fauna a

• Event - ASEAN-China Environmental Cooperation Forum 2023

  The ASEAN-China Environmental Cooperation Forum is an annual high-level dialogue event, conducted as part of the implementation of the ASEAN-China Environmental Cooperation Strategy and Action Plan (2021-2025).   This year, the ASEAN-China Environmental Cooperation Forum will resume in-person on 15-16 September 2023 in Nanning, China, organised by the China-ASEAN Environmental Cooperation Center (CAEC) under the guidance of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's R

• Publication - ASEAN's Greatest Parks - The ASEAN Heritage Parks Programme

  MacKinnon, J. R. & G. B. Villamor. 2004. ISBN 971-8986-60-X. This publication showcases the ASEAN Heritage Parks Programme and ASEAN's greatest natural parks. The publication describes 36 ASEAN and World Heritage Parks of the 10 ASEAN member countries. It portrays the amazing richness of the various life forms that are immeasurably valuable and useful to humans.

• Publication - CEBU RESOLUTION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

  Recalling the Declaration of ASEAN Concord II (Bali Concord II) to establish an ASEAN Community comprising three pillars, namely political and security cooperation, economic cooperation, and socio-cultural cooperation that are closely intertwined and mutually reinforcing for the purpose of ensuring durable peace, stability and shared prosperity in the region; Welcoming the implementation of the Vientiane Action Programme (VAP), the medium-term roadmap for the period 2004-2010 which sets out s

• Publication - Chairman’s Statement of the 11th ASEAN-Republic of Korea Summit Singapore, 21 November 2007

  The 11th ASEAN-Republic of Korea (ROK) Summit chaired by H.E. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, was held on 21 November 2007 in Singapore. The Heads of State/Government of ASEAN Member Countries had a productive meeting with H.E. Roh Moo-hyun, President of the Republic of Korea. We welcomed the recent progress made at the Six-Party Talks and expressed support for the Agreement on 3 October 2007 as another important step toward the denuclearisation of the Korean Penin

• Publication - Chairman’s Statement of the 13th ASEAN-Japan Summit

  Ha Noi, 29 October 2010 The 13th ASEAN-Japan Summit, chaired by H.E. Mr. Nguyen Tan Dzung, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, was held on 29 October 2010 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. The Heads of State/Government of the ASEAN Member States had a productive meeting with H.E. Mr. Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan. The ASEAN Leaders warmly congratulated H.E. Mr. Naoto Kan on his re-election as Prime Minister of Japan and expressed their conviction that his able leadership would further

• Event - Closing Ceremony of the ASEAN-EU BCAMP Project, Final PSC Meeting of BCAMP Project and Awarding Ceremony of the ASEAN Green Initiative (AGI)

  The AGI is supported by the European Union through the BCAMP and the GIZ through the Institutional Strengthening of the Biodiversity in the ASEAN (ISB II) Project.

• Publication - DECLARATION OF THE 7TH ASEAN HEALTH MINISTERS MEETING Health Without Frontiers, Penang, Malaysia

  WE, the Ministers of Health of ASEAN Member Countries, representing Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam; REAFFIRMING the vision of ASEAN as a concert of Southeast Asian nations, outward looking, living in peace, stability and prosperity, bonded together in partnership i

• Publication - Germany Continues to Support ASEAN in Community Building Efforts

  The Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN Economic Community, H.E. Sundram Pushpanathan met the Members of the German Federal Parliament Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development here today to discuss the economic and development cooperation between ASEAN and the Federal Republic of Germany.   The delegation was headed by Mrs Dagmar Wohrl, Head of the Committee, and was accompanied by the Ambassador of Germany to ASEAN, H.E. Dr Norbert Baas, as well as the head and offici

• Publication - Global Taxonomy Initiative Regional Action Plan for Southeast Asia (2017-2025)

  GTI RAP for Southeast Asia (2017-2025). The CBD in its Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) has recognized that the global taxonomic impediment constrains the global biodiversity agenda. In response, a GTI Regional Action Plan for South East Asia 2010–2015 was developed by the AMS with China, Japan, and Korea through the ACB. The action plan served as the roadmap in addressing the GTI as implemented in the ASEAN region. This Regional Action Plan 2017–2025 is a conti

• Publication - Joint Co-Chairman’s Statement of the 15th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting Jakarta

  1. The 15th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 10 March 2005. The Meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU), the European Commissioner for External Relations and the Secretary General of ASEAN. The Meeting was co-chaired by Indonesia as the ASEAN country coordinator and Luxembourg acting as Presidency of the EU. The Meeting was held in the traditional spirit of openness, mutual c

• Publication - Joint Comminuque The 30th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM)

  The Thirtieth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting was held in Subang Jaya, Malaysia from 24 – 25 July 1997. IMPLEMENTATION OF DECISIONS OF THE FIRST ASEAN INFORMAL SUMMIT 2. The Foreign Ministers welcomed warmly the admission of Laos and Myanmar into ASEAN. They expressed satisfaction that the admission of Laos and Myanmar, on the 30th Anniversary of ASEAN, had advanced the vision of the Founding Fathers to build a united community of the Southeast Asian Nations. The Foreign Ministers recalled the

• Publication - Joint Communique of the 38th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Vientiane

  THEME:   TOWARDS THE HARMONY, DYNAMISM AND INTEGRATION OF ASEAN INTRODUCTION 1. We, the Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), met formally on 26 July 2005 in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), for the first time since the Vientiane Action Programme (VAP), the successor to the Ha Noi Plan of Action (HPA); the ASEAN Security Community (ASC) Plan of Action; and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Plan of Action

• Publication - Joint Communique of the 38th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Vientiane

  THEME: TOWARDS THE HARMONY, DYNAMISM AND INTEGRATION OF ASEAN INTRODUCTION 1. We, the Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), met formally on 26 July 2005 in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), for the first time since the Vientiane Action Programme (VAP), the successor to the Ha Noi Plan of Action (HPA); the ASEAN Security Community (ASC) Plan of Action; and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Plan of Action were adopted at the