The First Ministerial Regional Forum on Environment and Health gathered environment and health ministers from the Asia-Pacific region in Bangkok, Thailand, from 8-9 August 2007, to review national activities that address environmental health risks.

The meeting endorsed the Bangkok Declaration on Environment and Health, which seeks to strengthen cooperation between countries in the region in an effort to reduce the deaths associated with various environmental health hazards. The Declaration identifies a number of environmental and health priorities, including air quality, water supply, hazardous waste, climate change, and ecosystem change, and it includes a regional Charter aimed at helping South-East and East Asian countries develop joint policies and programmes on environment and health. A Second Ministerial Regional Forum is planned in 2010 to review the progress in implementing the regional Charter.
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UNEP Press release, 9 August 2007