Conclusions and Recommendations

This report comprehensively reviewed the state and trends of the environment, the pressures on it and the drivers of those pressures, and the national and regional initiatives in place to address environmental concerns, using the DPSIR framework, and provided an overall outlook for the ASEAN environment. New elements, especially the SDGs, Paris Agreement, and the environmental implications of the COVID-19 pandemic were also discussed. This assessment also endeavoured to be more relevant to wider audiences by addressing the relation between environmental problems to human health, similar to GEO-6, as well as to the economy and jobs.