Partnership between Europe and Asia for Cleaner Environment (PEACE)

Technology is the key to environmental excellence and partnership is the best way to take advantage of each other's strength. Setting up of the PEACE follows one of the major recommendations of the Second Round Table on Cleaner Environment held in New Delhi in June 1999. This Round Table established the need for a forum to encourage regular dialogue between European and Asian stakeholders to disseminate information and benefits of environment friendly products, processes, practices, equipment and technology. Under the proposed project PEACE Clubs will be set-up in Europe and Asian Countries to share the experience on environment friendly technologies. PEACE clubs will work as bridges between Europe and Asia for easy and swift flow of information and technology. The focus will be on SMEs, who do not have capability to invest the amount of capital required to access information to improve their environmental management. PEACE will benefit European companies seeking to market their environmental technologies. Asians will benefit by having a demand-driven channel for information and technology on environmentally responsible action and take concrete action in improving the quality of environ

PEACE has the following objectives :
Encourage environment friendly trade and investment flow between Asia and Europe.
Institutionalise dialogue between European and Asian stakeholders on environment friendly action and socially sustainable issues between the two regions.
Creation of selfsustainable environmental clubs called PEACE clubs across Asia that could act as focal points on exchange of information on environment best practices.
Inform public, private sector and civil society in Asia about the benefits of environmentally friendly trade, investment, action and behaviour.
Involve European organisations to help increase environment management capacity in Asia.
Develop, promote and support Asia-Europe Environmental R & D network.
Offer expertise on formalisation policies, regulatory frameworks, management instruments, financing mechanism with a view to bring down environmental degradation in Asia.
Facilitate market based approaches to environmental protection.
Help and advice in integration of environmental accounting with economic accounting.
Development of an environmental portal to provide gateway to all environment related information.
First meeting of PEACE Club has taken place in January 20, 2001 in New Delhi, INDIA. Invitees for the first meeting include all experts who attended the 2nd Round Table in New Delhi. The agenda will include formation of PEACE Clubs in the country off each representative. PEACE Clubs will provide all the information related to environment technologies and also undertake matchmaking between Asian and European stakeholders. All these services shall be free of cost in the first year. The only income will be from enrolment of members. After a year of the set-up of the club, it will charge a nominal fee for the services and also for the membership.