The Philippines and the Republic of Korea recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the Clean Air for Sustainable ASEAN (CASA) Cooperation Project, which will be implemented over a two-year period from 2025 to 2026.

The MOU was signed by Assistant Secretary for Environment and concurrent Director of the DENR Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), Jacqueline A. Caancan, and the Principal Investigator of CASA and Seoul National University (SNU) Graduate School of Public Health, Professor Kiyoung Lee, in Pasay City.

The CASA Project, funded by the ASEAN–Republic of Korea Cooperation Fund and launched in January 2023, aims to empower ASEAN Member States with the tools and expertise needed to build robust air quality management systems through the provision of advanced equipment and capacity-building programs.

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