Conditions are ripe GMS to embrace sustainable agriculture and become a source of environmentally friendly produce.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Thailand, Myanmar and Laos to jointly solve smoke haze
Thailand will cooperate with Myanmar and Laos in a campaign against forest fires as the three countries ready for the summer haze.
Climate change impacts worsen in Mekong Delta
The environment in Mekong Delta is severely being affected by hasher natural disasters, water pollution and natural resources depletion, said a scholar.
Multiple Mekong forums risk igniting rivalry
Mekong River leaders will be busy this year at meetings of many regional cooperation schemes that observers have said are overlapping.
Mekong River to become new South China Sea for regional disputes?
The Beijing-led Lancang-Mekong Cooperation mechanism was set up to help ease tensions over development projects, but NGOs are unconvinced
Deputy PM urges Mekong Delta development
The sustainable development of the Mekong Delta must go in hand with its long-term ability to recover and adapt to the multi-dimensional impacts of climate change
Mekong activists demand international law regulating development projects
Thai people living along the Mekong River are advocating an international law to protect the environment and human rights regarding international investments in the river basin
Organic tourism: but what of the farms, farmers and ecology it relies on?
The ADB is featuring organic food as a new type of tourism in the GMS, while farmers themselves are suffering, as is the ecology many of these tourists want to experience.
China ‘ready to amend’ Mekong plan
China acknowledges concerns about the impacts on people’s livelihoods of its rapid-blasting, Mekong channelization project–may amend/cancel the project.
Cambodia’s fisheries at risk due to hydropower development on Mekong, MRC warns
Hydropower development will likely deal a serious economic blow to Cambodia, with dire outlooks for its fisheries and rice outputs predicts Mekong River Commission (MRC).