Download or read book The Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific, 2005 written by United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific 2005 concentrated on achieving environmentally sustainable economic growth, or "green growth". The concept is innovative in that it reconciles two potentially incompatible Millennium Development Goals: economic growth to alleviate poverty and environmental sustainability. This publication presents the full report of the conference.