2nd GMS Environment Ministers' Meeting Joint Ministerial Statement
This joint statement was issued at the 2nd GMS Environment Ministers' Meeting on 29 January 2008 in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
This joint statement was issued at the 2nd GMS Environment Ministers' Meeting on 29 January 2008 in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
The Second GMS Environment Ministers Meeting (EMM-2) was held in Don Chan Palace Hotel in Vientiane, Lao PDR on 29 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.
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