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5th Working Group on Environment Meeting
Opening Session
The Fifth Meeting of the Working Group on the Environment (WGE) for the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)
was sponsored by Asian Development Bank (the Bank) and hosted by the People's Republic of China (PRC).
The Meeting was held on 11-12 May 1999 at Kunming Hotel in Kunming, Yunnan Province of PRC.
Meeting Participants included official Government representatives from the host country PRC, Cambodia,
Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar and Thailand and Viet Nam;
Bank staff and Consultants; resource speakers from World Wild Fund, Mekong River Commission;
and bilateral donor agencies (Spain and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation).
The Steering Committee for GMS environmental projects also comprises the official Government representatives to the WGE Meeting,
as well as representatives of the Bank, UNEP and the MRC.
Objectives
The meeting was organized with the following objectives:
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To assess the possibility of adopting a strategic environmental programming in the GMS;
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To report on nine thematic papers as agreed during the WGE-4;
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To address current concerns in the environment sector;
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To review the status of three ongoing subregional environment projects;
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To report on follow-on activities for completed subregional environmental projects;
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To discuss opportunities for GEF funding; and
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To formulate WGE Action Plan based on the thematic papers.
The Proceedings of the meeting is available as the links below:
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