​​The Tenth Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting (IG10) on the Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and Its Likely Transboundary Effects for South Asia was held on 21 August 2008, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Mr. R. Rajamani, former Secretary of Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India chaired the meeting as the Regional Facilitator. The meeting was attended by the Ministries of Environment and Natural Resources of Sri Lanka, National Implementing Agencies (NIA) of the participating countries, members of Monitoring Committee (MoC), South Asian Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Swedish Environmental Research Institute Ltd (IVL), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and an independent facilitator.

The progress of the Malé Declaration implementation during 2007/2008 and the data report for 2007/2008, the consideration of the impact assessment reports, the revision of decision support information, Terms of Reference for Task Force on the future development of the Malé Declaration and the work programme of the Malé Declaration in 2009 were discussed in the meeting.

Meeting Documents