Third Annual Meeting

GEMEED was created at the initiative of Chile and Korea as a sub-group of APEC’s Energy Working Group. The first meeting took place in Santiago in May 1996. The second meeting took place in Seoul in March 1997. Mr. Tomás Astorga of the Chilean Ministry of Mines is the Chairman of GEMEED; Chile also provides the Secretariat.

GEMEED provides a forum in which to address both mining and energy exploration and development issues in APEC. While the first meetings were oriented very much towards investment-related issues, the Third Annual Meeting focussed on the sustainable development of minerals and metals.

The Third Annual Meeting was held in Ottawa on May 8, 11 and 12, 1998, and was hosted by Natural Resources Canada. It included a half-day industry panel that focussed on the theme "Towards Sustainable Development of Minerals and Metals." This panel offered a forum for industry to promote its efforts to implement sustainable development and to provide examples of best practices that could be adopted in other APEC economies.

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The following documents are available in Acrobat (PDF) format:

• Program (131 kb)
• Database Steering Committee: Summary Report (12 kb)
• Environmental Cooperation Steering Committee: Summary Report (9 kb)
• Environmental Cooperation Steering Committee: Terms of Reference (7 kb)
• GEMEED Secretariat's Report (18 kb)
• GEMEED Annual Meeting: Summary Report (19 kb)
• List of Participants (370 kb)
• List of GEMEED Contacts (210 kb)
• ECOW 97: Summary Report (6 kb)

Other APEC Sites

• Expert Group on Minerals and Energy Exploration and Development (GEMEED)
• APEC Network of Mineral and Energy Data
• APEC Home Page

Policy Issues Related to Minerals and Metals