The 2010 Asia-Pacific Leadership Programme on Environment for Sustainable Development, jointly organized by UNEP and Tongji University, starts the courses in Tongji University on September 18th 2010. The theme of this year’s programme is “Expo and Sustainable Development” 18 applicants from 13 countries around the Asia-Pacific region were selected as participants of the one-week course.

The Asia-Pacific Leadership programme aims to improve the all-round thinking and decision-making abilities of the young and emerging leaders in government organizations, NGOs, and private enterprises in the Asia-Pacific Region, direct them to take the balance between environment and sustainable development into account in decision making, and foster their insights so as to be able to coordinate factors of human, environment and sustainable development in dealing with complex practical problems.