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3-4 March 1998
Tokyo, Japan
CHAIR'S SUMMARY
(b) Environmental Indicators - A Path to the Future (New Zealand's environmental indicators);
(c) the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN); and
(d) the Fourth Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (February 1998, Kuching, Malaysia).
(b) ECO ASIA should strive for the development and expression of common messages from the Asia-Pacific region to international fora.
(c) The activities of Phase II of the Project should be action-oriented, in order to achieve concrete outputs of the Project to the Asia-Pacific region, and achievements for each country involved in the Project.
(d) The Project should develop and demonstrate its value-added to sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region, compared to other fora.
(e) It was suggested that interim reviews of the progress in the Project should be conducted, and necessary revisions in the Project identified as it progresses.
(f) Methodologies should be developed to implement ECO ASIA activities and concepts more effectively.
(g) In line with the concept of "ECO Partnership" it was proposed that efforts should be made to maximize the active participation of major stakeholders in the Project, within fiscal constraints.
(b) To provide input to the ECO ASIA Congress for consideration as a possible contribution to "Rio+10" in the year 2002; and
(c) To enhance human resources and institutional capacities of the participating countries to realize sustainable development through implementation of this Project.
These objectives will be attained through application of the four concepts, namely; Eco-Consciousness, Eco-Partnership, Eco-Technology and Eco-Investment, and Eco-Linkage, which were developed in Phase I.
mid-April | Distribute Second Draft of Phase II Work Plan for further review |
end of May | Submission of comments to the Secretariat |
end of June | Distribute Draft Final Work Plan |
September | Submission to ECO ASIA Congress |