The Environment Ministers' Meeting (EMM)
of the countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)
29th January 2008 in Vientiane, Lao PDR.
Opening session of the Environment Ministers' Meeting (EMM).
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.
Meeting Participants
The meeting participants included the GMS delegations from the Kingdom of Cambodia,
the People's Republic of China (the PRC), Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), the
Union of Myanmar, Kingdom of Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. Also in
attendance as observers were program donors and implementing partners, multilateral and
bilateral agencies, NGOs and representatives of the private sector. The meeting was co-chaired
by H.E. Madame Khempheng Pholsena, Minister to the Prime Ministers' Office, Head of Water
Resource and Environment Administration, Lao PDR and Mr. C. Lawrence Greenwood, Jr., Vice
President of the Asian Development Bank.
The Meeting Agenda, Photo Highlights and important documents are available as the links below:
![Environment Performance Assessment [Synthesis] Report](/docs/Thumb/EPASynthesisRpt_w100.jpg)
