APFED Policy
Dialogue aims to promote multi-stakeholder dialogues on policies
and challenges to promote environmental management and sustainable
development in Asia and the Pacific. APFED members will interact
with other stakeholder representatives to articulate on policy
and institutional gaps and to set out recommended policies, measures
and actions to promote environmental management and sustainable
development in Asia and the Pacific.
A wide range of policy makers, experts and stakeholders candidly exchanged views and experiences with a view to facilitate policies, measures and actions effective to pursue sustainable development through ESD and 3Rs. Issues addressed at the symposium ranged from design for the environment and sustainable production and consumption to environmentally sound resource and energy use.
APFED members and experts of climate issues presented their views and recommendations on how should Asia tackle climate change challenges and how can Asian countries work together for global sustainability, with the intention of providing impetus to the policy processes on climate change.
CSR for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific (March 2007, Singapore)
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly recognised as an important approach to promote the involvement of the business sector and to develop multi-stakeholder partnerships to pursue environmental management and sustainable development. The APFED Policy Dialogue on CSR for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific was organised jointly by the Singapore Institute for International Affairs (SIIA) and IGES to review CSR development and the potential for promoting environmental management and sustainable development in the region.
Chemical Management (November 2006, Brussels, Belgium)
The Asia-Europe
Environment Forum 4th Roundtable "Combine or Combust! Cooperating
on Chemicals Management" was held in Brussels, Belgium
from 30 November - 1 December 2006. The meeting was intended
to facilitate current global policy dialogue on chemicals
management through the promotion of transparency, capacity
building and knowledge transfer. The meeting was organised
by the Asia-Europe Environment Forum (ENVforum) with over
30 participants and 20 observers from government, industry,
civil society and the research sector. It was co-hosted with
the European Commission and supported by the Asia Pacific
Forum on Environment and Development (APFED) as part
of the APFED policy dialogue. - Summary Report192KB - Booklet328KB
The APFED Expert Meeting
on the 3Rs in Asia was held with a view to promoting multi-stakeholder
policy dialogue on the 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle)
to improve material use efficiency and waste management.
It was intended to provide useful inputs for the Senior
Officials' Meeting on the 3Rs that was held in Tokyo from 6 - 8 March, 2006. Aside from the selected APFED members,
the meeting was attended by 40 experts and representatives
including those from national governments, research institutes,
private sector, NGOs and international organisations.
The promotion of
people's access to environmental information is recognised
as a strategically important policy tool for promoting among business and the general public
behavioural changes toward
achieving better environmental performance among business and the general public. The APFED members,
the European experts on the Aarhus Convention, government
officials and other relevant organisations' representatives
attended the workshop. They reviewed the situation of environmental
information access in the region and discussed challenges
and solutions. This workshop was held as a side event
at the Asia-Europe Environment Forum "1/3 of Our Planet:
What Can Asia and Europe Do for Sustainable Development?".
