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FOCUS on APEC ____________________________________________________________________ APEC SECRETARIAT Calendar of Events Beginning January 1997 Explanation for Abbreviations at end of document MONTH/YEAR APEC OTHER RELATED EVENTS January 1997 Jan/Mar(to be advised) (to be advised) EWG: 3rd Meeting of Ad Hoc Business Forum on Regional Cooperation for Power Infrastruture 7 – 8 Jan Jakarta, Indonesia TEL WG: Seminar […]

Official APEC Documents ____________________________________________________________________ 1997 ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC) LEADERS DECLARATION 1) WE, APEC’S Economic Leaders, met today in Vancouver, Canada, to reaffirm our commitment to work together to meet the challenge of sustaining regional prosperity and stability. Certain of the dynamism and resilience of the region, we underline our resolve to achieve sustainable growth […]

Official APEC Documents ____________________________________________________________________ APEC Cleaner Production Strategy 1997 Environment Ministerial VISION The magnitude of new investment in industrial capacity in the Asia-Pacific region, combined with greater use of more flexible and cost-effective environmental management techniques, creates an opportunity to achieve cleaner production and thus more sustainable industrial development in the Asia-Pacific region. APEC has […]

Official APEC Documents ____________________________________________________________________ APEC: Addressing the Impact of Expanding Population and Economic Growth on Food, Energy and the Environment (FEEEP) December 1996 The APEC Economic Leaders’ Declaration for Action issued in Osaka, Japan in 1995, states that “the Asia-Pacific’s fast expanding population and rapid economic growth are forecast to sharply increase the demand for […]

Trade and Environment Policy Project   APEC and the Environment: Innovative Approaches to Trade and Environment in Asia-Pacific October 18th, 1996 San Francisco. (Papers from the Trade and Environment Policy Project workshop series organized by: Nautilus Institute, National Wildlife Federation, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy)   David G. Morgan, “Building APEC’s Institutional Architecture: Crosscutting […]

Lessons of NAFTA for APEC Mark J. Spalding, J.D., M.P.I.A. The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development   ABSTRACT   At the beginning of this decade, environmentalists truly began to discover trade issues. The debate between environmentalists and trade liberation proponents has usually been framed by two questions: “How does trade liberalization harm the […]

Mekong River Basin Development Issues ____________________________________________________________________ Source:BurmaNews Network (BNN), Free Burma Coalition (FBC), moe@interport.net (Julien Moe), IntelAsia@aol.com (Lee Siew Hua) Promise and peril of the mighty Mekong Sep 7 1996 For the first time in history, the world’s 12th-longest river holds the promise of becoming a 4,200km corridor-of-commerce serving 230 million South-East Asians. But will the dream be […]

FOCUS on APEC ____________________________________________________________________ FOCUS-on-APEC ________________________________________________________________ A regular bulletin produced by Focus on the Global South (FOCUS) Bangkok, Thailand Number 6, August 1996 FOCUS was designated the NGO Information/Monitoring Center on APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum) by the participants of the 1995 NGO Forum on APEC in Kyoto, Japan. It was out of this […]

Official APEC Documents ____________________________________________________________________ APEC Ministerial Meeting on Sustainable Development Action Programme Manila, Philippines July 11-12, 1996 Ministers from Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, and the United States met […]

FOCUS on APEC ____________________________________________________________________ FOCUS-on-APEC ___________________________________________________________ A regular bulletin produced by Focus on the Global South (FOCUS) Bangkok, Thailand Number 5, June/July 1996 FOCUS was designated the NGO Information/Monitoring Center on APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum) by the participants of the 1995 NGO Forum on APEC in Kyoto, Japan. It was out of this […]