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The 12th Senior Officials Meeting
The 12th Senior Officials Meeting will be held on 6-7 December, 2006 in Beijing. The SOM will particularly focuses on the following topics.
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The Review Meeting of Nature Conservation Project
The Review Meeting of Nature Conservation Project was jointly organized by the UNESCAP and Irbis Mongolia on 19-20 October in Hustain National Park, Mongolia. The discussion and outcome of the meeting are as follows.
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Expert Group Meeting on “Eco-efficiency in North-East Asia”
25-26 May 2006, Beijing
Expert Group Meeting on “Eco-efficiency in North-East Asia” was held in collaboration with China Standard Certification Center on 25-26 May 2006 in Beijing, and attended by nominated national experts from all six member countries. The EGM reviewed relevant national policies, the implication of North-East Asian countries’ economic development in the context of eco-efficiency, and the conceptual dimensions of eco-efficiency. Based on the findings from the review, the EGM discussed the applicability of the eco-efficiency concept to subregional and national levels. Through the presentation and discussion, the EGM drew the following findings:
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Expert Group Meeting on Nature Conservation Project
An Expert Group Meeting on Nature Conservation was hosted by Chinese national collaborating center of the project—Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science, and attended by national experts from China, Japan, Mongolia, the Republic of Korea and Russia. In addition, experts from key NGOs and networks working for the conservation of the target species of the project attended the meeting as resource persons or observers.
The meeting focused on three issues: conservation strategy, database and pilot projects. A plenary session and group exercise were organized for each topic so as for experts of different species groups to achieve a common understanding on the approaches to adopt. Moreover, the Meeting identified major components of conservation strategy for target species; agreed upon the mechanism of web-based data-sharing using the current NEASPEC website operated by National Institute of Environmental Research of the Republic of Korea; agreed on the procedure of project implementation and the substantial roles of collaborating national centers in providing major inputs for the agreed structures of strategy and database, and in implementing the pilot projects and undertaking other related national activities. The follow-up of this Meeting is to submit a subregional conservation strategy, and the activity and financial report of the project to SOM-12 of NEASPEC to be held in November 2006.
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The 11th Meeting of Senior Officials
Preparatory Meeting of Experts for the Eleventh Meeting of Senior Officials (SOM) and Eleventh Meeting of Senior Officials (SOM-11) on Environmental Cooperation in North-East Asia was held.
The Meeting reaffirmed the significance of NEASPEC in tackling common environmental challenges in the Subregion and decided to explore proper ways for strengthening its institutional mechanisms. In particular, the Meeting requested the Secretariat to undertake research on future institutional mechanism and circulate the result among the member countries in well advance of the next SOM in order to make a meaningful decision at the Meeting.
The Meeting noted the importance of ensuring the Nature Conservation Project to produce concrete outcomes, and developing possible options for the participation of DPRK and the Russian Federation in an ADB-funded project on air pollution from coal-fired power plants.
The Meeting also concluded to develop a new activity on eco-efficiency in North-East Asia, and to organize an expert group meeting in 2006 as a preparatory process of project development. In relation to the proposal on North-East Asia Environment Outlook, the Meeting requested the Secretariat to make additional efforts to elaborate on the project concept in detail and circulate the proposal among the member countries for further consultation.
The Meeting decided to explore holding an informal NEASPEC ministers’ meeting during an international gathering of environment ministers such as CSD-14.
inception meeting of Nature Conservation Project
From 18-21, July 2005, the ROK and Kumkang Nature Reserve in DPRK, the inception meeting of the project, ‘A Framework for a Nature Conservation Programme in North-East Asia’, was held in Chuncheon, ROK
Government officials and experts of feline animals from China, Japan, Mongolia, the Republic of Korea and Russia were gathered at the Inception Meeting of Project on Framework for a Nature Conservation Programme in North-East Asia organized by ESDD/ESCAP.
The project aims to develop a strategy and action plan for nature conservation in the North-East Asia subregion. Such joint action by NEASPEC countries is in dire need, as their individual capacities in nature conservation vary greatly, and there exists no common system and terminology to categorize species threats and habitats.
The Meeting reviewed previous sub-regional nature conservation projects, and focused on how to arrange a project framework which could have concrete impact and visibility.
Based on the significance of the species and the principle of common interest, the Meeting finalized six species as targets of the Nature Conservation Project. Among the chosen are three species of feline animals, i.e. the Snow leopard, the Amur leopard and the Amur tiger, and three species of migratory birds: the White-naped crane, the Black-faced spoonbill, and the Hooded crane. Delegates agreed to undertake practical and action-oriented activities as pilot projects in order to develop a project focusing on the development of a subregional strategy and action plan. Project activities would be based on information compiled into a database, which would be the responsibility of the designated collaboration centers in each project country.
The Secretariat proposed a revised project budget and activity components at the 11th Senior Officials Meeting of NEASPEC held in late October 2005.
CALENDAR OF MEETING AND ACTIVITIES
The Meetings scheduled to take place in 2006 are:
19-20 October: Review Meeting on Subregional Conservation Strategy
6-7 December: The Twelfth Meeting of Senior Officials |
