EnviroAsia 2011

65% of the total Asian human population by 2050 will be urbanised from the current 35%, stressing existing infrastructures, pressurising natural habitats and ecologies. Energy and material consumption will escalate in line with urbanization, increasing greenhouse gasses, continuing environmental pollution, degrading and destroying verdant irreplaceable green belts and their ecosystems. Asia’s immediate needs are too obvious – to balance the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of the natural environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite future.