The summary of proceedings of the Asia-Europe Environment Forum Conference "1/3 of Our Planet: What Can Asia and Europe Do for Sustainable Devleopment?" includes the report of the workshop "Access to Environmental Information in Asia". Among the key messages/discussion points raised by the workshop, the Aarhus Convention and Kiev Protocol on PRTRs were found useful in promoting access to information in European countries. Such access was considered to be a universal right as well as instrumental to achieve environmentally sustainable economic growth. Participants recommended regional collaboration and the development of a regional instrument for harmonizing implementation of principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development as a desirable objective in Asia.
