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Department of Environment and Natural Resources Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning and Foreign Assisted and Special Projects Marcial C. Amaro, Jr. and Ecosystems Research Development Bureau (ERDB) Assistant Director Mayumi Quintos-Natividad (right and left, front row, respectively) formally open the poster exhibit of 35 research papers during the Research and Development Conference on Urban Parks and Green Cities: A Sustainable Future in Southeast Asia held on October 11, 2022 in Manila. The research papers, written by local and international experts from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries, featured strategies and measures to make ASEAN cities green, livable, and sustainable. Simplicia A. Pasicolan, PhD., Consultant for the Society for the Conservation of Philippine Wetlands, Inc. (rightmost), and Gem B. Castillo, PhD., Chairperson of the Board of the Environment and Economics Center for Studies and National Director of the Economy and Environment Group Philippines (leftmost) also attended the ceremony.###