South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme - SACEP
November 8 , 2019 1765 days 894 0
Union Minister of Environment and Forest and Climate Change - Prakash Javadekar has attended the 15th meeting of the Governing Council of South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
It is an intergovernmental organization and headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
It was established in 1982 by the governments of South Asia to promote and support protection, management and enhancement of the environment in the region.
The members of SACEP includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
SACEP also acts as the Secretariat for the South Asian Seas Programme which comes under the purview of UNEP’s Regional Seas Programme.