E to assess the origin and cause, nature and extent of local and regional haze
incidents;
E to prevent and control the sources of haze at both national and regional
levels by applying environmentally sound technologies and by strengthening
both national and regional capabilities in the assessment, mitigation and
management of haze;
E to develop and implement national and regional emergency response plans.
The Haze Technical Task Force was established in 1995 to operationalize and
implement the measures included in the ASEAN co-operation plan on
transboundary pollution. Following the 1997 fire-and-haze event, a Regional
Haze Action Plan was formulated by the Haze Technical Task Force and was
endorsed by the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in 1997. The Regional Haze Action
Plan has an operational focus, intending to identify specific actions to be taken at
regional, sub-regional and national levels to prevent man-induced haze events.
South-East Asian countries are also included in the EANET Programme
described below.
North-East Asia. Concern regarding ongoing environmental degradation in
the North-East Asian region, resulting from the dynamic development of the
region, despite individual nations’ efforts to prevent environmental pollution led
to the initiation of the Tripartite Environment Ministers Meetings (TEMM)
amongst Korea, China and Japan. In their first communique´ in 1999 the
ministers recognized that China, Japan, and Korea are playing important roles in
economic and environmental cooperation in the North-East Asian region and
that close cooperation among the three nations is indispensable to sustainable
development in North-East Asia. The ministers shared the view that the
following areas of cooperation should be given priority: raising awareness that
the three countries are in the same environmental community; activating
information exchange; strengthening cooperation in environmental research;
fostering cooperation in the field of environmental industry and on environmental
technology; pursuing appropriate measures to prevent air pollution and to
protect the marine environment; and strengthening cooperation on addressing
global environmental issues, such as biodiversity and climate change. They also
expressed their intention to cooperate to tackle these issues. The awareness of air
pollution issues in the region in the last decade has been aided by the
development of several regional multilateral initiatives including:
(i) Joint Research Project on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollutants in
Northeast Asia (LTP project)
This joint project was started in 1995 by the National Institute of Environmental
Research (NIER) of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to investigate the current
situation of transboundary movement of air pollutants and to support joint
research amongst ROK, China and Japan on long range transboundary air
pollutants in North-East Asia.
(ii) Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET )
Communique´ s of Tripartite Environment Ministers Meetings amongst China, Japan and Korea.
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incidents;
E to prevent and control the sources of haze at both national and regional
levels by applying environmentally sound technologies and by strengthening
both national and regional capabilities in the assessment, mitigation and
management of haze;
E to develop and implement national and regional emergency response plans.
The Haze Technical Task Force was established in 1995 to operationalize and
implement the measures included in the ASEAN co-operation plan on
transboundary pollution. Following the 1997 fire-and-haze event, a Regional
Haze Action Plan was formulated by the Haze Technical Task Force and was
endorsed by the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in 1997. The Regional Haze Action
Plan has an operational focus, intending to identify specific actions to be taken at
regional, sub-regional and national levels to prevent man-induced haze events.
South-East Asian countries are also included in the EANET Programme
described below.
North-East Asia. Concern regarding ongoing environmental degradation in
the North-East Asian region, resulting from the dynamic development of the
region, despite individual nations’ efforts to prevent environmental pollution led
to the initiation of the Tripartite Environment Ministers Meetings (TEMM)
amongst Korea, China and Japan. In their first communique´ in 1999 the
ministers recognized that China, Japan, and Korea are playing important roles in
economic and environmental cooperation in the North-East Asian region and
that close cooperation among the three nations is indispensable to sustainable
development in North-East Asia. The ministers shared the view that the
following areas of cooperation should be given priority: raising awareness that
the three countries are in the same environmental community; activating
information exchange; strengthening cooperation in environmental research;
fostering cooperation in the field of environmental industry and on environmental
technology; pursuing appropriate measures to prevent air pollution and to
protect the marine environment; and strengthening cooperation on addressing
global environmental issues, such as biodiversity and climate change. They also
expressed their intention to cooperate to tackle these issues. The awareness of air
pollution issues in the region in the last decade has been aided by the
development of several regional multilateral initiatives including:
(i) Joint Research Project on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollutants in
Northeast Asia (LTP project)
This joint project was started in 1995 by the National Institute of Environmental
Research (NIER) of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to investigate the current
situation of transboundary movement of air pollutants and to support joint
research amongst ROK, China and Japan on long range transboundary air
pollutants in North-East Asia.
(ii) Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET )
Communique´ s of Tripartite Environment Ministers Meetings amongst China, Japan and Korea.
J. C. I. Kuylenstierna, W. K. Hicks and M. J. Chadwick
50