23rd Senior Officials Meeting of the North-East Asian Subregional Programme for Environmental Cooperation (NEASPEC) will be hosted by the Government of Mongolia on 9-10 October 2019.

SOM is an annual occasion to review NEASPEC activities, discuss on furthering cooperation and to formulate new initiatives. Since the last SOM held in October 2018 in Beijing, NEASPEC has continued to implement activities and initiatives in the programmatic areas of (a) transboundary air pollution, (b) nature conservation, (c) marine protected areas, (d) low carbon cities and (e) desertification and land degradation. The progress in project implementation and plan for upcoming activities will be presented to SOM for further guidance of member States.

In particular, the upcoming SOM is expected to review progress made in (a) the North-East Asia Clean Air Partnership (NEACAP), (b) nature conservation and (c) desertification and land degradation; and commence the planning for the NEASPEC Strategic Plan 2021-2025. Furthermore,  outcomes of study projects for (a) the North-East Asia Low Carbon City Platform (NEA-LCCP) and (b) the North-East Asia Marine Protected Areas Network (NEAMPAN) will be presented at the upcoming SOM. 

►  Programme

►  Meeting documents 

1. Provisional agenda

2. Annotated provisional agenda

3. Transboundary Air Pollution

• Main document
• Annex I. Conclusion of the First Meeting of NEACAP Science and Policy Committee and Technical Centers 
• Annex II. Draft Rules of Procedure for NEACAP Science and Policy Committee, Technical Centers and Working Groups
• Annex III. Discussion Paper on the Workplan of the North-East Asia Clean Air Partnership
• Annex IV. ESCAP Resolution, “Strengthening regional cooperation to tackle air pollution challenges in Asia and the Pacific”

4. Nature Conservation in Transboundary Areas

• Main document
• Annex I. Workshop Programme on Transboundary Conservation of Big Cat Species in North-East Asia
• Annex II. Harbin Consensus on Strengthening Cooperation in Transboundary Conservation of Tigers and Leopard
• Annex III. KEI-NEASPEC Joint Project Report on “Conservation of Biodiversity in Northeast Asia and Border Cooperation”
• Annex IV. Concept note of Preliminary Study on Transboundary Cooperation among Protected Wetlands in the Tumen River Estuary

5. Marine Protected Areas

• Main document 

6. Low Carbon Cities

• Main document
• Annex I. Peer Review Report for Guangzhou City, China
• Annex II. Summary of Comparative Study on Low Carbon City Development in China, Japan, and Republic of Korea

7. Desertification and Land Degradation

• Main document

8. Review of the Core Fund

• Main document 

9. Plan for the NEASPEC Strategic Plan 2021-2025

• Main document 
• Annex I. Milestones of the development of NEASPEC Strategic Plan 2016-2020 (included in the main document) 
• Annex II. Draft evaluation questionnaire