The 8th Semi-Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Environment (WGE SAM-8) was chaired by Madame Keobang A Keola, Director General, Department of Pollution Control, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), and co-chaired by Mr. Sanath Ranawana, Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist, Asian Development Bank (ADB). The meeting was attended by representatives from the environment ministries and Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) national secretariats of Cambodia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam; donor partners; and the GMS Environment Operations Center (EOC) staff.