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The Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Cities in ASEAN was
held from 14 – 15 Oct 04 in Singapore.
The Conference was jointly organised by the ASEAN
Secretariat and the National Environment Agency, Singapore,
and sponsored by the Japan-ASEAN General Exchange Fund, Hanns-Seidel
Foundation, United Nations Development Programme and United
Nations Environment Programme.
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Guest-of-Honour,
Dr Yacob Ibrahim, Minister for the Environment and
Water Resources, Singapore, giving an opening address.
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The objectives of the Conference were as follows:
- Provide city officials an in-depth understanding of the
Framework.
- Share best practices on Clean Air, Clean Water and
Clean Land.
- Develop a list of environmental best practices
and indicators that are applicable and can be adopted in the ASEAN
cities.
- Facilitate possible collaboration between cities and
international organisations.
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Dr Christian Hegemer, Director of
Hanns-Seidel
Foundation, giving a statement.
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Invited guests, including the ASEAN Environment
Ministers,
at the opening ceremony.
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The Conference was attended by 70 participants from 22
ASEAN participating cities, ASEAN Secretariat and various
international organisations.
Representatives from international organisations such
as CAI-Asia, IGES, UN-HABITAT, UNCRD, UNDP, UNEP, UNEP-IETC,
GTZ, UNU, US-AEP, Japan and Republic of Korea were present to
share with the participants their experience and existing
related programmes, as well as environmental best practices on
environmental sustainability.
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At the end of the Conference, ASEAN city officials,
with the help of resource persons, successfully drew up a list
of environmental best practices that can be used and shared
amongst cities.
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Break out session - Clean Land
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The next step for the ASEAN Working Group on
Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC) would be to
conduct thematic workshops and training programmes to help
cities to implement their respective environmental master
plans and develop the capacity to adopt environmental best
practices successfully. The preliminary list of environmental indicators will be further
looked at and developed at each of these thematic workshops.
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Break out session - Clean Water
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Break out session - Clean Air
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