Sino-Japanese-Korean Tripartite Environmental Education Network Project

For the purpose of establishing cooperative ties in environmental protection, solving regional environmental problems common to China, Japan and Korea, promoting local sustainable development, discussing and working out a regional environmental protection action plan, and following the proposal of the Japanese government, in 1999, the three countries held the first Tripartite Environmental Minister Conference in Korea. The conference is held annually in one of the three countries in turn, the fifth Tripartite Environmental Minister Conference having been convened between Dec. 13-14, 2003 in Beijing. The Head of the SEPA XIE Zhenhua, the Japanese Minister of the Environment Yuriko KOIKE, and the Korean Minister of the Environment Mycong Sook Han attended the meeting, each representing their respective ministries. XIE Zhenhua, representing the hosting country, chaired the conference.

One of the projects decided upon at the Tripartite Environmental Minister Conference was the Tripartite Environmental Education Network (TEEN) project. This project aims at establishing a network for China, Japan and Korea in the field of environmental education, in order to push forward the exchange and cooperation between environmental education institutions of the three countries, and thus to commonly promote environmental education development. Within the framework of this project, a ‘Sino-Japanese-Korean Tripartite Data Bank of Environmental Education Institutions’ was established as the base for exchange and cooperation in this field. The CEEC is the implementing institution for this project in China.