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Welcome to the Greater Mekong Subregion
Environment Operations Center (GMS EOC) website!
This is the online home of the Environment Operations Center (EOC) for the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Environment Program (GMS CEP). Please find more information About EOC.
The information on this program are also available at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Greater Mekong Subregion Core Environment Program (CEP) project webpage.
For general inquiries, please contact us.
For any comments, suggestions regarding our website, please contact webmaster.
Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Environment
On July 1-2, the Working Group on Environment will be conducting its 14th annual meeting in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR on the theme of climate change.
The participants, hailing from all six GMS nations, will be endorsing the future scope of environmental work in the region,
to be operationalized by the six countries in collaboration with the EOC. Discussions will also take place on the institutional future of the EOC.
The future direction of this work draws heavily on the directives from the Third GMS Leaders Summit in March 2008
as well as at the Environment Ministers Meeting in January 2008.
World Environment Day GMS documentary launch
The documentary "Forests for our future" about the Biodiversity Corridor Conservation Initiative (BCI) with activities in five countries in the GMS
was launched on the occasion of World Environment Day on Thursday, June 5th at resident missions in Cambodia, PR China, Lao PDR and in Thailand.
Government partners, NGOs, media and youth representatives participated in the launch,
that spurred two articles in the Bangkok Post [Article 1]
[Article 2]
as well as articles in Thaipost and Thai Rath,
one article in Mekong Times, and one in Vientiane Times.
...more details
Brainstorming Workshop on "Programming for the CEP" and "Institutional Future for the EOC"
The Brainstorming Workshop was held on 6-9 May 2008 at the ADB Thailand Resident Mission and Arnoma Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
with participants from GMS countries' WGE representatives, Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), program donors, implementing partners and NGOs.
...more details
EMM Highlights of Discussion is now available
The Highlights of Discussion of the Second GMS Environment Ministers Meeting (EMM-2) held in Don Chan
Palace Hotel in Vientiane, Lao PDR on 29th January 2008, is now available.
Please click for the Highlights of Discussion (PDF: 54.4KB | 10 pages)
or more details on The Second GMS Environment Ministers Meeting (EMM-2)
GMS Development Dialogue on Climate Change
The 2nd GMS Development Dialogue on Climate Change was held on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at ADB’s Thailand Resident Mission in Bangkok
video-linked with ADB Resident Missions in Beijing, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, and Hanoi
...more details
GMS Environment Operations Center celebrated its 2nd anniversary
On Tuesday, April 29, the Greater Mekong Subregion Environment Operations Center under ADB, based in Bangkok, celebrated its 2nd anniversary at an event held at the ADB Thailand Resident Mission.
The anniversary attracted nearly 60 of the GMS-EOC’s development partners, WGE members, colleagues and implementing partners.
The event also show cased the recently launched documentary called "Conserving our Natural Heritage" about the Core Environment Program that is implemented by the GMS-EOC.
The 4th issue of the CEP Newsletter is now out
Read all about the second environment minister's meeting, the eco-exhibition, new mapping tools to support GMS prjoect planning and more...
also lists upcoming events, latest publications and new EOC staff.
Please click for the Newsletter Fourth Issue (PDF: 609KB | 6 pages)
or for Previous issues of CEP Newsletter
Core Environment Program documentary film is now available!
Conserving Our Natural Heritage: The Core Environment Program documentary film (13 minutes) which gives an overview of the program and activities that have been carried out
by the Core Environment Program. The documentary film also addresses the future challenge of the Core Environment Program.
...more details
An Environment Seminar for GMS Senior Officials
The Environment Operations Center of the Core Environment Program welcomed thirteen
senior officials from various ministries of the governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR, PR
China, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam who participated in an environment seminar last
26-29 February 2008 at the ADB Thailand Resident Mission in Bangkok. Mr. Jean-Pierre
Verbiest, ADB Country Director for Thailand graced the occasion on opening day. The
seminar which was titled "Issues and Sustainable Options for the Mekong" focused on the
topics of climate change, transboundary ecosystem management, biofuels and transport.
...more details
Press Briefing on the Environment Ministers' Meeting (EMM) -
GMS Environment Ministers Seek Added Funds to Combat Climate Change
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (30 JANUARY 2008)
-- Environment ministers in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) this week called on the region's development partners
to mobilize additional financial and technical assistance to assist the region in achieving ambitious targets for improved environmental and natural resource management.
In the Joint Ministerial Statement issued at the conclusion of the second GMS Environment Ministers Meeting, on 29th January in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR),
ministers highlighted the "environment for development" perspective and noted a need to take a pragmatic and pro-active approach to sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
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The Environment Ministers' Meeting (EMM) of the countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)
was held on 29th January 2008 in Vientiane, Lao PDR.
The Second GMS Environment Ministers Meeting (EMM-2) was held in Don Chan
Palace Hotel in Vientiane, Lao PDR on 29th January 2008. The overall theme of the meeting was
"Sustainable Natural Resource Use for Economic Competitiveness". The meeting took
stock of achievements of the GMS Core Environment Program (CEP) since its inception last
April 2006 and discussed emerging environment, conservation and poverty reduction issues
such as climate change, global warming and their effects on socio-economic growth and
development. Also part of the event was the Environment Forum and Eco-Exhibition where
private and non-government organizations were invited to exhibit technologies, products or
services that were environmentally sound, benign and suitable for utilization in the GMS.
...more details
The Eco-Exhibition was held between 28-30 January 2008 in Vientiane, Lao PDR.
The Eco-Exhibition ran for three days from the 28th through the 30th of January, 2008 at the Don Chan Palace Hotel in Vientiane, Lao PDR.
The Eco-Exhibition had participants from the private and public sectors from around the world to display their products and services that are environmentally sound,
benign and suitable for utilization in the GMS. As such, these organizations had an audience of Ministers, top level government officials as well as media,
NGO representatives, other participants of the exhibition an visitors from the subregion and beyond.
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GMS-EOC participated in UN Day 2007 Exhibition at Central World Shopping Mall in Bangkok from 23rd to 25th October, 2007
GMS-EOC together with ADB Thailand Resident Mission joint the other twenty-one entities and international organizations at the United Nations Day exhibition,
held at Central World Shopping Mall in Bangkok from 23rd to 25th October, 2007. The Prime Minister of Thailand, Surayud Chulanont, spoke at
the official observance on 24th October. At the EOC booth, a poster introducing GMS Core Environment Program and its components was posted on the panel.
EOC also launched, throughout the three-day exhibition, a loop video on the introduction of EOC, a brief demonstration of the use of EOC map tools, the pictures of EOC first year highlight
and the Cardamom Mountains documentary film....more details
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