ASEAN COOPERATION ON ENVIRONMENT

Priority Areas of ASEAN Environmental Cooperation

1. Global Environmental Issues2. Transboundary environmental pollution3. Environmental Education4. Environmentally Sound Technology5. Environmentally Sustainable Cities6. Environmental Policies and Databases7. Coastal and Marine Environment8. Nature Conservation and Biodiversity9. Water Resources Management10. Climate Change

4 Key Result Areas of ‘Sustainable’ Characteristic in ASCC Blueprint 2025

Institutional Framework

Governing Board of ACB

Chairmanship of ASOEN Subsidiary Bodies

Priority Areas Lead / Chair(2016-2019)

1. ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change (AWGCC) Singapore

2. ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment (AWGCME)

Philippines

3. ASEAN Working Group on Chemicals and Waste (AWGCW) Thailand

4. ASEAN Working Group on Environmental Education (AWGEE) Brunei Darussalam

5. ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC)

Cambodia

6. ASEAN Working Group on Nature Conservation and Biodiversity (AWGNCB)

Indonesia

7. ASEAN Working Group on Water Resources Management (AWGWRM)

Malaysia

Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Indonesia

Environmentally Sound Technologies (EST) Myanmar

Institutional Framework of the ASEAN Agreement on Trasboundary Haze 

Pollution

Roadmap on ASEAN Cooperation towards

Transboundary Haze Pollution Control with Means of Implementation

• Adopted by the ASEAN Ministers responsible forthe environment at the 12th Meeting of theConference of the Parties to the ASEANAgreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution(COP‐12 AATHP) on 11 August 2016 in KualaLumpur, Malaysia.

• Noted by the ASEAN Leaders at the 28th and 29thASEAN Summits on 6 September 2016 inVientiane, Lao PDR.

• An action‐oriented and time‐bound frameworkfor ASEAN Member States to achieve the visionof Haze‐Free ASEAN by 2020.

ASEAN Body Lead / Chair(2016)

Committee under COP to AATHP (COM) Malaysia

Technical Working Group on Transboundary Haze Pollution (TWG) Singapore

Technical Working Group on Transboundary Haze Pollution in the MekongSub‐region (TWGMekong)

Thailand

ASEAN Task Force on Peatlands Malaysia

Chairmanship of COM and Relevant Bodies

ASEAN Cooperation on Climate Change

ASCC Blueprint 2009-2015

D10. Climate Change

ASEAN Action Plan on Joint 

Response to Climate Change 

(AAPJRCC)

Adopted by 13th IAMME in 2011

ASEAN Action Plan on Joint Response to Climate Change

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