Australian Standard underpins APEC energy initiative

摘要

In November 1994, at Bogor, Indonesia, APEC leaders came together to "chart the future course of their economic cooperation". This meeting spawned the Bogor Declaration that conceptualized the vision of an open trading system in the Asia Pacific region. APEC leaders sought to implement this vision through the Osaka Action Agenda at their meeting in Japan in November 1995. The Osaka Action Agenda provided a template for future APEC cooperation activities that laid out the common goals of APEC members. Essentially, the Agenda was founded upon the three pillars of trade and investment, namely liberalisation, their facilitation, and economic and technical cooperation. The Agenda laid out nine general principles, three of "which APEC member economies could apply in order to meet the long-term goal of free and open trade and investment no later than the year 2010, in the case of the industrialised economies, and the year 2020 in the case of developing economies.