NCEA at South Asian conference on impact assessmennt

9 December 2013

Islamabad, 2-5 December 2013. The NCEA contributed to the South Asian Environmental Assessment conference on impact assessment. About 300 delegates from South Asian countries as well as Canada, Cambodia, United Kingdom, and China came together to exchange experiences. The NCEA provided among others a pre-conference training workshop on EIA review. At the conference closing Mr Zahid Hamid, Minister for Science and Technology, stated: “This Conference has ignited considerable interest in the subject of environmental assessment, and today we are reaffirming our pledge to work more strategically and more responsibly towards shaping our future development.”