Green Equity Asia (GEA) believes in the power of a collaborative approach to climate and ecosystem resilience - building strong alliances between all levels of government, communities, civil society and businesses.
What is green equity?
Recognizing the urgency of protecting biological diversity and mitigating climate change, green equity envisions a world where disadvantaged groups have the information they need to influence climate and natural resource policy at all levels - local, national, regional and international. Achieving green equity demands transparent environmental governance, civil society access to information, and community engagement. Green equity also has an important intergenerational component - ensuring that development decisions today do not unduly impact future generations’ right to a healthy environment and just society.
FOCUS: ASIA
Asia is at the forefront of the climate change and biological diversity loss crisis. As pressure on natural resources intensifies and areas of special ecological importance - such as the Lower Mekong subregion - undergo unprecedented stress from growth driven by foreign investment, it is clear that traditional multilateral and government-led conservation approaches alone cannot meet the rising challenge. GEA and its local partners’ deep experience promoting open development gives us a unique voice in this sphere.
“The Mekong river
is the second most biodiverse river in the world, after the Amazon, and supports the world’s largest freshwater capture fishery of about 2.3 million tonnes/year with an estimated commercial value of US $2000 million/year.”
Mekong River Commission, FAO / Read Full Article