South East and Asia's Leading experts on Tibet: The Water Tower of Asia

The 4th Tibet Environment Conference was held in Thailand from 27-28 November.The two-day conference was jointly organised by Tibet Policy Institue and Chulalongkorn University.The theme of this year's conference ins Tibet: The Water Twoer of Asia (Towards a Global Common Good).

Some of the keys opics covered at the conference include hydro-geopolitics in the South Asian river basins, climate change challenge to food and water security, neutralisation of water dispute, analysis of contemporary China's transboundary water governance, the impact of the Tibetan plateau on the onset of the southeast asian summer monsoon,and linking science to policy making etc. among other topics.

Tibet House Trust is pleased to fund this very important conference and see how this conference sucessfully brought together a diverse group of experts to higlight and understand Tibet's ecological importance,particularly the importance of Tibet's river and its role in global climate change.