Prevention and Control of Dust and Sandstorms in Northeast Asia

This project will promote establishment of a regional cooperation mechanism to facilitate the cooperation and coordination of the interventions by the major stakeholders in Northeast Asia (the region) to address the transboundary environmental problem of dust and sandstorm (DSS), thus supplementing and maximizing the effects of the efforts undertaken by the governments of PRC and Mongolia under their respective national action programs to combat desertification under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.