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• News - Media Release: ASEAN Environment Year 2015 and 2nd ASEAN Eco-Schools Award Presentation Ceremony

  The ASEAN Environment Year (AEY) 2015 celebration with the theme Empowering the Youth for a Green ASEAN Community was held back-to-back with the 2nd ASEAN Eco-schools Award Presentation Ceremony on 29-30 July 2015 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. The ceremony was attended by senior officials from ASEAN Member States (AMS) and Japan representing their respective Ministers; and eco-schools representatives nominated to receive the ASEAN Eco-schools Award; development partners; and local participants and y

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: ASEAN intensifies conservation of protected areas

  On the second day of the 22nd Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 22) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on 3 July 2018 in Montreal, Canada, the ASEAN Member States (AMS), through Myanmar, joined other Parties in recognizing the importance of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) in sustaining protected areas, particularly in achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. Dr. Naing Zaw Htun, Ministry of Natura

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: ASEAN Joins Call for Collective Efforts in Conserving Marine Biodiversity

  Led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the University of the Philippines-Marine Science Institute (UP-MSI), the Fourth Asia-Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS) runs from 4 to 8 June 2018 in Cebu City, Philippines. With the theme, Coral Reefs of the Asia-Pacific: Working Together Amidst Contemporary Challenges, the APCRS aims to encourage collaborative actions among scientists, educators, managers, environmentalists, and relevant local stakeholders from key orga

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: ASEAN launches Youth Biodiversity Programme

  MAKATI CITY, 19 September 2019 – The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity launched the ASEAN Youth Biodiversity Programme (AYBP), aiming to empower the youth to contribute to the formulation and implementation of biodiversity policies, at the sidelines of the ASEAN Biodiversity Heroes Regional Forum on 4 September in Makati City, Philippines. AYBP–developed in collaboration with the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, the official youth constituency to the Convention on Biological Di

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: ASEAN Member States join negotiations on global agreement to safeguard all life on earth

  ASEAN Member States (AMS) and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), representatives from State Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), experts, indigenous peoples and communities, and stakeholders from around the world, open talks this week on a global agreement to safeguard life on earth, in all its forms. This first meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is being held this 27 to 30 August 2019, in Nairobi, Keny

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: ASEAN-German Cooperation Project on Economic Development and Biodiversity Protection Concluded in Lao PDR

  After four years of implementation, the ASEAN-German Cooperation Project Biodiversity-based Products (BBP) as an Economic Source for the Improvement of Livelihoods and Biodiversity Protection celebrated its success in a regional Project Closing Event in the ancient capital of Lao PDR – Luang Prabang – on 4 June 2019. The BBP Project, funded by the German Government through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and implemented by the GFA Consu

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: ASEAN, India see importance of protected areas in addressing sustainable development goals

  Most, if not all of the ASEAN Member States (AMS) have taken the necessary actions towards the achievement of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 on the conservation of protected areas, according to the Second Edition of the ASEAN Biodiversity Outlook (ABO 2) of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB). Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 states that, "By 2020, at least 17 percent of terrestrial and inland water areas and 10 percent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: ASEAN's nature park managers share effective management experiences

  Eleven managers and senior staff of the ASEAN region’s best nature parks gathered in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia from 25 to 28 June 2019 to share good practices in effective parks management. Through a Regional Learning Workshop on the Effective Management of Protected Areas organised by the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), the managers and senior staff involved in the management of ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHPs) and protected areas learned the elements and principles of ecotourism, as

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: Biodiversity Heroes of Cambodia, Indonesia & Philippines share spotlight in Manila

  MAKATI CITY, 19 September 2018 – The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) held the second leg of the ASEAN Biodiversity Heroes Regional Forum in Makati City, Philippines on 4-5 September. The forum aims to promote biodiversity conservation by sharing first-hand accounts of people who fight for the environment. With support from the European Union (EU) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Biodiversity Management Bureau (DENR-BMB), the forum featured the ASEAN Biodi

• News - Media Release: Biodiversity is Focus in First ASEAN-India Environment Ministers Meeting

    ASEAN is one of the richest regions in terms of biodiversity and natural resources. Three of the world’s twenty five recognised biodiversity hot spots are within the ASEAN region, which occupies only three per cent of the earth’s total surface but is home to over 20 percent of all known plant, animal and marine species. These species provide us with essential ecosystem services that not only ensure the health of the environment but also of 600 million people in ASEAN. It is

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: Cambodia: ASEAN mainstreams biodiversity in agriculture, forestry, and agrobiodiversity

  The ASEAN Member States (AMS) are mainstreaming biodiversity within and across sectors, particularly in agriculture, forestry, and agrobiodiversity, through a biodiversity-based products project as reiterated in a statement by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) read by Cambodia during the Second Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 2) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held in Montreal, Canada on 9 July 2018. Ms. Somaly Chan, Deputy Secretary-Gen

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: EU and ASEAN commit towards a circular economy for plastics in the ASEAN Region

  Kuala Lumpur, 12 June 2019: The two-day EU-ASEAN regional workshop on circular economy took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 11 to 12 June 2019.The workshop, conducted back- to-back with the European Commission DG Environment Circular Economy Mission to Malaysia, emphasised the importance of collaboration between the EU and ASEAN towards a circular economy, and contributed to the EU-ASEAN High-Level Dialogue on Environment and Climate Change. Joint Opening Remarks of the EU-Malaysia Conferen

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: Promoting Cross-Sectoral and Multi-Partner Coordination in Adressing Climate Change Issues in ASEAN

  Manila, 26 June 2018 For the first time, ASEAN Climate Change Partnership Conference was held under the auspices of the ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change (AWGCC) on 26 June 2018 in Manila, Philippines. The Conference brought together over 60 representatives from various ASEAN sectoral bodies, dialogue and development partners, as well as private sector, with a view to enhancing ASEAN-wide cross-sectoral and multi-partner coordination in addressing climate change issues in the region. Re

• News - MEDIA RELEASE: Ten conservation advocates receive 2017 ASEAN Biodiversity Heroes Award

  LOS BANOS, 7 August 2017 - Ten biodiversity conservation advocates representing the grassroots, government, academic, and business sectors received the 2017 ASEAN Biodiversity Heroes Award at a ceremony held in Manila, Philippines on 07 August 2017. The inaugural award forms part of the celebration of ASEAN's Golden Anniversary. The ASEAN Biodiversity Heroes is a program designed to recognize outstanding individuals from the ASEAN region who have contributed significantly to biodiversity cons

• News - Media Release: The Ninth Meeting of The Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution in The Mekong Sub-Region

  The Ninth Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution in the Mekong Sub-Region (9th MSC Mekong) was held on 14 August 2020 through Video Conference. The Meeting was attended by Ministers/representatives responsible for land, forest fires and haze from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam, and the Secretary-General of ASEAN, under the Chairpersonship of H.E. Dr. Saynakhone Inthavong, Vice Minister, Ministry of Natural Resources and Envi