M Baird ASEAN EAI IAIA Nagoya May 2016
Matthew Baird presentation on ASEAN EIA at IAIA 2016
May 13, 2016 By
PACT Mekong Partnership for the Environment Bangkok, August 2015
August 28, 2015 By
Presentation by Matthew Baird, Environmental Counsel Asia, at the Shared Solutions: Safeguarding Sustainable Development in the Mekong Region. A Symposium hosted by Thailand ONEP, PACT and the Mekong Partnership for the Environment, USAID, Sweden, and the Stockholm Environment Institute. The presentation was on EIA in the Mekong Region examining the developments in EIA in the five countries in the Mekong Region over the past 4 years.
Impact Assessment and ASEAN Economic Community
May 13, 2015 By
I was fortunate to be invited to present at the Impact Assessment and the ASEAN Economic Community: A Way Forward for Regional Cooperation. This Regional Workshop was held in May 2015 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The Workshop was hosted by the Vietnam Environment Administration, AECEN and Pact with funding by USAID.
The Workshop examined the role of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) in promoting sustainable development in the Mekong Region and ASEAN.
My presentation was an overview of EIA in the Mekong Region with particular emphasis on public participation.
International Workshop for EIA system and its Implementation in Asia held by IGES and MOE Japan in Tokyo in February 2015
March 17, 2015 By
H.E. Danh Serey, Director Department of EIA Cambodia.
An International Workshop for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Systems and Implementation in Asia was held in 24-25 February, 2015, Tokyo, Japan, organised by the Ministry of the Environment Japan (MOEJ) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The workshop aimed to introduce a summary of the six country research on challenges and opportunities to strengthen the EIA system and its implementation; discuss how to address four key common challenges identified in the country research (upstream EIA/Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), quality of EIA, information disclosure and public participation, and environmental management plan and monitoring) among participants; and identify how to strengthen the EIA system and its implementation through collaborating with international communities.
Participation in the workshop involved representatives from 15 Asian countries (Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam), Australia and the United States; international organisations (ADB, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Bank and others); private sector; academics and NGOs.
For more information IGES EIA Workshop February 2015.