Hue Named Environmentally Sustainable City Third Time

The 12^th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC 12) and affiliated events took place in Phuket, Thailand from May 26 - 29, 2014.

 

The meeting established a council in charge of assessing the Third ASEAN Awards for Environmentally Sustainable Cities and the Second Certificates for Potentially Environmentally Sustainable Cities. Each ASEAN member state is allowed to nominate one candidate city meeting ASEAN criteria for clean air, clean land and clean water for the Third ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable City Award. Hue City of Vietnam, together with nine other ASEAN cities, was honoured to be chosen by the Council for the award.

 

AWGESC 12 delved into activities of environmentally sustainable cities in relation to ASEAN’s cooperation programmes and projects with GIZ, USAID, IGES, EU and UN- Habitat on environmentally sustainable cities, Clean Air Project for ASEAN Small and Medium Cities; Citylink Cooperation Programme between the US and ASEAN; and Sample Environmental Cities in ASEAN and East Asian countries.