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Environment ministry/department in selected countries of the region

South Asia

Bangladesh: Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forest

India: Ministry of Environment and Forest (planning, promotion, and coordination of environmental, forestry, and wildlife programme), Pollution Control Board and State Departments (executing agency)

Iran: Department of Environment

Maldives: Ministry of Planning, Human Resources and Environment (policy institution), National Environment Council (executive agency)

Nepal: National Planning Commission (policy institution), Environmental Protection Council (executive agency), Ministry of Population and Environment (MOPE)

Pakistan: Ministry of Environment, Urban Affairs, Forestry and Wildlife (policy institution), Federal/Provincial Environment Protecting Agencies (executive agencies)

Sri Lanka: Ministry of Forest and Environment, Central Environmental Authority (executive agency)

East and Southeast Asia

Republic of Korea: Ministry of Environment

China (PR): National Environmental Protection Agency, Commission of Environmental Protection of the State Council

Indonesia¹ : State Ministry for Environment

Malaysia: Department of Environment. in Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment

Myanmar: National Commission for Environmental Affairs

Philippines: Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Environment Management Bureau

Singapore: Ministry of Environment

Thailand: Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Environment

Viet Nam: National Environment Agency (NEA) in Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Environment

Pacific island countries

Fiji: Department of the Environment (DOE).. in the Ministry of Urban Dev. and Housing and the Environment

Tonga: the Environmental Planning Section (EPS).. in the Ministry of Lands survey and Natural Resources

Papua New Guinea: Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC)

Vanuatu: Environmental Unit (EU).. Ministry of Agriculture Livestock, Forestry and Fisheries

Kiribati: Environmental Unit (EU)

Solomon Islands: Environment and Conservation Division (ECD)

Western Samoa: Division of Environment and Conservation (DEC)

Tuvalu: Environment Officer is directly response to the Prime Minister

(reference: State of Environment 1995, ESCAP, P449, country studies etc)

¹ Ministry of State for Population and Environment (MSPE) was split in 1993. See Environmental markets Asia: 1996-1997, A survey of environmental markets in 16 Asia-Pacific countries and territories, SGS