Strengthening Sustainable Development in Regional Inter-Governmental Governance: Lessons from the ASEAN Way
![handle is hein.journals/singa6 and id is 646 raw text is: Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law
(2002) 6 pp 640 - 682
Strengthening Sustainable Development in Regional Inter-
Governmental Governance:
Lessons from the 'ASEAN Way'
Koh Kheng-Lian*
Nicholas A. Robinson**
The existing frameworks for regional inter-governmental
governance should be fully utilised as part of the international
governance structure. Greater use should be made of regional,
inter-governmental and other organisations to promote
coordinated sustainable development initiatives for that region.
Joint Statement of Environment Ministers of ASEAN to the World Summit on
Sustainable Development, 4 June 2002, Bali, Indonesia, in Report of the 12th
Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Nature Conservation and
Biodiversity (AWGNCB), 17-18 June 2002, Yangon, Annex 12, at para. 21
[ASEAN is the acronym for the Association of South East Asian Nations]
I. INTRODUCTION
Sustainable development, worldwide, cannot be attained unless
each country undertakes common but differentiated actions to
implement the recommendations made in Agenda 21. These
undertakings can be encouraged through strengthened
international support networks, such as international cooperation
to provide information on whether patterns and climatic
conditions or to fashion new, collaborative financing systems for
implementing needed actions. However, work at the international
level is remote from each country's specific problems or their
PhD, LLM (Singapore), LLB (Malaya), Diplome de Hautes Etudes
Internationales (University of Geneva), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore).
Formerly Professor and currently Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Law,
National University of Singapore; Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for
Environmental Law, and IUCN Commission on Environmental Law Regional
Vice-Chair for South and East Asia.
* J.D. Columbia University; A.B. Brown University; Member of the Bars of the
State of New York and the US Supreme Court; Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin
Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, Pace University (New York),
and Chair, rUCN Commission on Environmental Law.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/singa6&div=22&collection=journals&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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