October 2024 | Issue 5

With 2024 slowly nearing its end, we are delighted to welcome you to the fifth issue of the Greater Mekong Subregion Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Program newsletter. As delegates from the GMS countries prepare for the highest-level forum of the GMS Program - the 8th GMS Leaders' Summit to be held in Kunming on 6 November - we look back upon a year bustling with activity, important international meetings and workshops, and new knowledge products developed.


December 2023 | Issue 4

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Greater Mekong Subregion Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Program newsletter! 2023 is coming to a close, ale we are pleased to share with you a recap of activities and events over the past six months, announce the upcoming publications, and invite you to the exciting lineup of capacity building workshops that will take place in the first half of 2024. 

June 2023, Issue 3

This third issue talks about CCESP events in the first half of 2023, which includes the successful workshop focused on community-based climate resilience and the four policy dialogues hosted by Lao PDR in Vientiane, which covered in-depth discussions on Green Freight, Low-Carbon Agriculture, Air Pollution Control, and Plastic Waste Management Towards Circular Economy. It also invites readers to the upcoming events planned for summer and autumn, including more policy dialogues, training workshops, and the 27th Annual Meeting of the GMS Working Group on Environment to be hosted by Viet Nam.

January 2022 | Issue 1

This is the inaugural newsletter issue for the GMS Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Program. It features the Inception Workshop and the key findings from the draft Inception Report as it awaits final approval from ADB. The newsletter also focuses on the recent UN conferences on biodiversity (COP15) and climate change (COP26), and how these relate to the CCESP and the GMS countries' respective goals.