Asia

Delegates at UN meeting pledge green-friendly approach to development in Asia and the Pacific

29 March 2005
Ministers and senior officials from 52 Asian and Pacific countries meeting under United Nations auspices today pledged to alter current patterns of production, consumption and distribution to promote cleaner, environmentally sustainable growth as they fight to eradicate poverty.

Ministers at UN-backed Asia-Pacific meeting seek ‘green-friendly’ development

28 March 2005
Ministers from Asia and the Pacific opened a two-day meeting under United Nations auspices today in Seoul, Republic of Korea, to draw up a strategy to enhance development without hurting the environment.
Kim Hak-Su, ESCAP

UN-backed Asia-Pacific meeting told high growth environmentally unsustainable

24 March 2005
The first high-level major environmental conference since last December's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami opened today in Seoul, Republic of Korea, under United Nations auspices with a warning that high economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region is environmentally unsustainable.