RISPO II is a partnership project under the United Nations Environment Programme/Network of Institutions for Sustainable Development (UNEP-NISD). This partnership project focusses on the rapidly developing economic integration in Asia through the process of creating an East-Asian community.

The overall objective of this partnership project is to provide policy-makers with strategic environmental policy options for promoting sustainable development identifying environmental and socio-economic effects at national and regional levels that will stem from the future regional economic integration in East Asia. For the purpose of in-depth study, this project will conduct country case studies that include: China, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
The core activities of the partnership will be the following three interrelated and complementary activities:

	Evaluation of the implications of regional economic integration on the environment, while also taking into account the impacts on social equity and economic development;
	Assessment of the capacity of existing environmental policies and institutions to deal with the environmental effects of regional economic integration; and
	Identification of relevant policy instruments and mechanisms for integrating environmental and social considerations in regional economic integration.

Organisations involved:
UNEP/DITE/ETB (Division of Technology, Industry and Economics/Economics & Trade Branch)/ Korea Environment Institute (Korea)/ McGill University (Canada)/ National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan)/ Policy Research Center for Environment & Economy, SEPA (China)/ Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Economic Research Center (Indonesia)/ Thailand Environment Institute (Thailand)/ Institute for Environmental Science and Technology Hanoi University of Technology (Viet Nam)
Resource Institutes:
ASEAN Secretariat/ Seikei University/ Keio University/ United Nation University, etc.