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  • ADB and the Climate Investment Funds: Climate Change Innovation and Action in Asia and the Pacific

    This document presents ADB’s experience in developing Climate Investment Funds (CIF) programs and highlights innovative transformations expected from or already achieved by ADB ...

  • Defintion of Forests: A Review

    The definition of word "Forest" differs from region to region, and country to country based on the objectives of management, land use, vegetation type, composition, altitude, e...

  • Mysterious Mekong: New Species Discoveries 2012-2013

    An extraordinary 367 new species were discovered in the Greater Mekong in 2012 and 2013. Among the species newly described by scientists are 290 plants, 24 fish, 21 amphibians, ...

  • Forests and Forestry in the Greater Mekong Subregion to 2020

    In the 12 years since the first Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study was completed in 1998, the region has experienced tremendous changes in nearly every aspect. These cha...

  • Communal Land Titling in Practice: Lessons from Khammoune Province, Lao PDR

    This capitalization note explores the results and lessons learned from a process to issue a Communal Land Title (CLT) to 33 households on 41.6 hectares of agricultural land in T...

  • Study on the Impacts of Mainstream Hydropower on the Mekong River - Draft Impact Assessment Report: Impact Assessment Methods and Results – Summary Version

    This document is a summary version of the Mekong Delta Study (MDS) Impact Assessment Report (IAR). There have been constant worries that construction and operation of any o...

  • Water resources-challenges and strategies for the management and use of water resources for the sustainable development of the Mekong river delta

    A conference presentation by a MONRE representative in Can Tho 2017 on the following: I. Patterns of Water Resource Use in the Mekong Delta 1.The needs of the entire Mekon...

  • Equity in water resource use

    Decree No. 82/2017 / ND-CP was released by the Prime Minister stipulating the method of allocating water usage rights offiicially took effect on the 1st of September 1, 2017. Th...

  • Valuing Ecosystem Services in the Lower Mekong Basin: Country Report for Lao PDR

    This report begins with a description of what ecosystem services are and how they can be categorized. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is the most ubiquitous and comprehensiv...

  • Swidden, Rubber and Carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia

    Swidden (also called shifting cultivation) has long been the dominant farming system in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA). Today the ecological bounty of this region is th...

  • Rates and Drivers of Mangrove Deforestation in Southeast Asia, 2000-2012

    The mangrove forests of Southeast Asia are highly biodiverse and provide multiple ecosystem services upon which millions of people depend. Mangroves enhance fisheries and coasta...

  • Join Statement of the tenth ASEAN Ministerial meeting on Transnational Crime (10th AMMTC)

    The statement of the ASEAN Ministers from Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of ...

  • Fish Migration, Dams, and Loss of Ecosystem Services in the Mekong Basin

    The past decade has seen increased international recognition of the importance of the services provided by natural ecosystems. It is unclear however whether such international ...

  • goal-15-protect-restore-and-promote-sustainable-use-of-terrestrial-ecosystems-sustainably-manage-fo

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  • The state of world fisheries and aquaculture 2016

    A report by L. Ababouch on The state of world fisheries and aquaculture 2016 Contributing to food security and nutrition for all, published in Rome, Italy by FAO Fisheries and A...

  • The Exclusive Economic Zone: A Historical Perspective

    The concept of the exclusive economic zone is an essential element of the "package" of compromises and trade-offs that constitutes the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. It ...

  • Large Marine Ecosystems: Status and Trends

    Recognizing the value of large marine ecosystems (LMEs) and other transboundary water systems (open ocean, groundwater aquifers, lakes and reservoirs, and river basins), their c...

  • On Gender Mainstreaming Strategies and Tools in Fisheries Development Projects: RFLP Gender Strategy and Lessons from the Asia-Pacific Region

    Traditionally, most fisheries development projects have focused on technical aspects, lacking consideration of gender issues during the identification, implementation and monito...

  • Progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals

    Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 70/1, the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the United Nations system, has the honor to submit the report on progress towards the S...

  • SDG14 Conserve and Sustainably Use the Oceans, Seas and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development

    The text that follows provides an overview of interactions at the goal level between sdg14 – the ‘entry level goal’ for this assessment – and the other 16 sdgs. Taking into acc...

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