Freshwater rivers, lakes, and wetlands form some of the world’s most critical and biodiverse ecosystems. However, that immense biodiversity is at risk: Nearly one-third of freshwater fish are threatened with extinction. Among those at-risk species are …
Opening Keynotes Kate Rebholz, Charge d’Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Prior to arriving in Jakarta, Ms. Rebholz was the Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Ms. Rebholz has served in a comb …
Featured Speaker Abby Seiff is a journalist who was based in Southeast Asia for nearly a decade, working as an editor at the Cambodia Daily and the Phnom Penh Post and writing for publications such as Time, the Economist, Al Jazeera, and Pacific Standa …
Featured Speakers H.E. Manasvi Srisodapol, Ambassador of Thailand to the United States of America Erin Murphy, Director of Indo-Pacific, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation Dr. Hang Dao, Co-lead, Clean Energy Investment Accelerator Vietn …
Published December 10, 2021 / Held December 16, 2021
Mekong countries must balance rising electricity demand with the clean energy technology transition, environmental impacts of hydropower, and shocks from COVID-19 and drought
In this online talk, Stimson Center Southeast Asia Program Director Brian Eyler discusses how the mighty Mekong River is now at a point of ecological crisis. The talk gives an overview to impacts of dams and other human interventions on the Mekong’s on …
Ed note — This discussion between Yun Sun, Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program, and Brian Eyler, Director of the Southeast Asia Program, references the April, 2020 feature story, How China Turned Off the Tap on the M …
This report explores the trade, investment, business, diplomacy, security, education, and people-to-people connections between the United States and the five countries of mainland Southeast Asia referred to as the Mekong region.
USAID’s strategic approach to advance America’s vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific includes improving natural resource management, especially since the region is rich in forests, fisheries, and other natural resources. Unfortunately, irresponsible …
More than 200 large dams planned, completed, or under construction in the lower Mekong Basin will deliver severe fragmentation to the river’s ecosystem and devastate downstream fisheries and agricultural practices.
This 2nd Mekong mainstream dam in Laos has irrevocably altered the 4,000 Islands region, one of the Mekong’s and the world’s most pristine natural areas
The Tonle Sap Lake must reverse to drive Mekong economies and the tens of millions living in the basin. This year drought severely delays the reversal for millions.