Mekong Climate Change Adaptation
Joint Statement of LMI Second Regional Working Group Meeting
Lower Mekong Initiative
Second Regional Working Group Meeting
Vientiane, Lao PDR
November 7-8, 2011
Joint Statement
- Connectivity
- Education
- Environment and Water
- Health
- Climate Resilience
- Cookstoves
- ECO-Asia Water and Governance
- Environmental Monitoring and Emergency Preparedness
- Forecast Mekong
- Mekong Climate Change Adaptation
- Rapid Economic Sensitivity Analysis of MRC’s Basin Development Plan
- River Basin-wide Hydropower Sustainable Assessment Tool
- Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Enterprise Development
- Watershed Management
LMI: A Climate Resilient Mekong River; Maintaining the Flows that Nourish Life
BACKGROUND
The Mekong River is the world’s most productive freshwater fishery and the second most bio-diverse river after the Amazon. This unique and flourishing ecosystem is dependent on the rich sediment and nutrients carried by the river. Two decades ago, the Mekong River ran unimpeded from the Tibetan Plateau to the Mekong Delta into the South China Sea. Today, it is poised on the brink of massive hydropower development.
2011 Lower Mekong Countries Disaster Management (LMCDM) Workshop
This workshop is the first of its kind in response to State’s LMI and will focus on developing collective capabilities in disaster management through collaboration efforts of dialogues, information exchanges, practical engagements and exercises
Mekong Basin cooperation follows ASEAN meeting
Vientiane, Lao PDR July 30, 2009
- Connectivity
- Education
- Environment and Water
- Health
- Partners
- Climate Resilience
- Cookstoves
- IVLP Program
- ECO-Asia Water and Governance
- Environmental Monitoring and Emergency Preparedness
- Forecast Mekong
- Mekong Climate Change Adaptation
- Rapid Economic Sensitivity Analysis of MRC’s Basin Development Plan
- River Basin-wide Hydropower Sustainable Assessment Tool
- Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Enterprise Development
- Watershed Management
U.S. Collaboration with the Lower Mekong Countries on the Environment, Health and Education
On July 22, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Foreign Ministers of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam met in Hanoi, Vietnam within the framework of the Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI), to highlight the growing cooperation between the United States and the Lower Mekong countries in key areas of common concern.
- Education
- Environment and Water
- Health
- Climate Resilience
- Cookstoves
- IVLP Program
- ECO-Asia Water and Governance
- Environmental Monitoring and Emergency Preparedness
- Forecast Mekong
- Mekong Climate Change Adaptation
- Rapid Economic Sensitivity Analysis of MRC’s Basin Development Plan
- River Basin-wide Hydropower Sustainable Assessment Tool
- Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Enterprise Development
- Watershed Management
Mekong River Commission and Mississippi River Commission agreement creates unique partnership
May 12, 2010 – Vicksburg, Miss. – Two river management entities thousands of miles apart signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today to create the first partnership between the Mekong River Commission and the Mississippi River Commission.