US-AEP supports partner organizations that promote discussion of the policy issues and approaches that best condition the prospects for environmental progress in Asia.

Conference:
Economic Recovery & Environmentally Sustainable Industry in Asia: Compatible Goals?

Catalyzing an International Policy Network

US-AEP efforts to catalyze a network of organizations and individuals to address the challenges of improving industrial environmental performance include a collaboration with the Greening of Industry Network, based at Clark University in the United States with a European programming base at Twente University in the Netherlands. The Greening of Industry Network is an international network of academics, businesses, NGOs, public interest, labor, and government members from over fifty countries with a common interest in developing industrial strategies that emphasize the goal of sustainable development.

With its presence in North America and Europe firmly established, the Network recognized the need to expand its presence in Asia. In 1997, the Network carefully surveyed more than 30 Asian policy organizations with strong interests in the issues associated with industrial transformation and a commitment to the policy challenges in Asia. Subsequently, US-AEP sponsored the participation of policy experts from research institutions, government agencies, and NGOs from seven Asian countries at the Network's annual conference.

Chulalongkorn University in Thailand emerged as the most promising base to elaborate and promote the Network�s transformation policy agenda. Chulalongkorn is the oldest university in Thailand and maintains an exceptional regional and international reputation. It leads a government-supported national consortium of universities working on environmental issues, including a collaboration with the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Additionally, the University supports major collaborations with U.S. universities in the areas of business and engineering, including the Kellogg and Wharton business schools, Universities of Michigan and Oklahoma, and Case Western University.

This emerging partnership between the Greening of Industry Network and Chulalongkorn University is expected to become fully operational in 1998. A series of policy-oriented workshops in Asia supported by US-AEP over the next year are among the partnership�s early activities.

 
 

 

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