Publications

The expansion of the online food services (collectively referred to as ‘OFS’) sector has been accelerating at high rates worldwide over the last few years. This sector is widely acknowledged, especially by urban consumers, for making life more convenient. During the strict lockdown following the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the OFS sector saw...

▪ Remarkable progress has been made to improve access to safe and clean drinking water over the last 20 years; however, water degradation caused by poor sanitation and hygiene services, low water-use efficiency for agriculture, and lack of appropriate domestic wastewater treatment systems are still common challenges observed in many ASEAN Member...

• Since its inception, ASEAN has had a vision of an integrated, sustainable, harmonious, peaceful, and productive region, with its “One Vision, One Identity, One Community”. • The three complementary communities, APSC, AEC, and ASCC, all include aspects of the future environmental conditions and quality of life desired for all ASEAN people, aligned...

• In ASEAN’s organizational structure, environmental cooperation is under the ASCC. • Environmental cooperation within ASEAN is overseen by AMME, managed by ASOEN, and implemented through seven Working Groups under the ASOEN, supported by the ASEAN Secretariat. • ASEAN conducts international cooperation on the environment at all levels, from the...

• The SDGs encourage countries to develop synergies between the environment and the social and economic dimensions of sustainable development. This could help gain more support for environmental measures by the public as well as a broader range of policymakers. • AMS have extensively engaged with the SDG process, developing data and indicators and...

• The drivers of resource consumption are population growth and economic development, leading to unsustainable consumption and production in the ASEAN region. • Increased consumption will lead to higher material extraction and processing. The current model of resource consumption has a linear flow (production→consumption→waste) and will lead to...

▪ Environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) are needed to develop individuals’ and communities’ capacities through transformative education to build sustainable environments, economies, and societies through reconfiguring the relationship between people, the environment, the economy, and society. ▪ AMS face...

• By 2050, more than half the population of most ASEAN Member States (AMS) will live in cities, and by 2035 the ASEAN region will have at least five mega-cities. • Cities are a laboratory of local and global challenges and solutions, and ASEAN cities are frequently frontrunners in developing sustainable (model) cities, with multiple good practices...

• As ASEAN increasingly transitions away from its agrarian traditions and becomes a core part of the global supply chain, improved environmental management of chemicals and waste is imperative. • Manufacturing is now a major contributor to AMS' gross domestic product (GDP) and exports but too many outdated factories in some developing ASEAN...

• Except for land-linked Lao PDR, the remaining ASEAN Member States (AMS) are bordered by seas. Those seas, however, are under increasing direct and indirect pressure from human interference, including the preference for many forms of development in the region’s coastal zones and islands. • Aquaculture is rapidly replacing overexploited capture...