South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme

In 1981 almost four decades ago, SACEP was created to fulfill a vision based on the following three assumptions

• Recognition of environmental degradation caused by factors like poverty, over population, over consumption and wasteful production threatening economic development and human survival,
• Integration of environment and development as essential prerequisites to Sustainable Development, and
• Importance of co-operative action in the South Asian region where many ecological and development problems transcend national and administrative boundaries.

Mission
To promote regional co-operation in South Asia in the field of environment, both natural and human in the context of sustainable development and on issues of economic and social development which also impinge on the environment and vice versa; to support conservation and management of natural resources of the region and to work closely with all national, regional, and international institutions, governmental and non governmental, as well as experts and groups engaged in such co-operation and conservation efforts.