South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP)
South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) is an inter-governmental organization, established in 1982 by the governments of South Asia to promote and support protection, management and enhancement of the environment in the region. SACEP member countries are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The 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.
