GMS

The 23rd Annual Meeting of the GMS Working Group on Environment reviewed Core Environment Program achievements and challenges during 2016 and discuss progress and priorities for CEP Phase III planning.

This workshop brought together environment and other GMS officials with international experts to explore green growth opportunities in the subregion.

Topics included:

• Green Growth Opportunities in the GMS: Setting the Context
• Environmental Technological Innovation
• Promoting a Transition Toward a Green Economy
• Financial Innovation

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At this Roundtable, the edited version of the Watershed-scale Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment guidelines will be reviewed.

Land use is constantly changing in the Greater Mekong Subregion. At the same time, land use planning processes are often poorly informed, risking decisions that may lead to social and environmental costs that outweigh intended benefits.

Environment officials from the six GMS countries met in Jinghong, PRC, to share biodiversity conservation experiences and to plan initiatives for increased cooperation in transboundary areas.

Under the theme "Discover GMS - Asia’s Natural Hub," the Greater Mekong Subregion Working Group on Agriculture is organizing a pavilion, chef shows, coffee and tea demonstrations, and two policy forum events at THAIFEX-World of Food Asia 2017.

A forum for decision makers and experts to deliberate and draft guiding principles for planning, designing and financing climate-resilient and ecologically sound transport infrastructure.

This two-day workshop was the first in a series of three events that will feed into the 5^th GMS Environment Ministers’ Meeting, scheduled for early 2018.

Examining the SDGs goal by goal shows that governments will confront many common and fundamental challenges as they work to advance sustainable development.