The 2nd NEASPEC Senior Officials Meeting was held on 28-29 November 1994 in Beijing, China, with the participation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in addition to China, Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea and Russian Federation, endorsed five priority (first phase) projects for implementation:

a) Operations and Maintenance Training for Reduction of Sulphur Dioxide in Older Coal Fired Electricity Generation;

b) Demonstration of Clean Coal-Fired Power Plant Technology;

c) North-East Asian Biodiversity Management Programme;

d) North-East Asian Seed Research and Information Base for Forests and Grasslands; and

e) Environmental Pollution Data Collection, Intercalibration, Standardization and Analysis.

Out of the five projects identified, the Meeting urged that three projects be supported with funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ESCAP. These were: a) Training for Sulphur Dioxide Reduction in Coal-Fired Power Plants; b) Demonstration of Low-Air Pollution Coal-Fired Power Plant Technology; and c) Environmental Pollution-Data Collection, Comparability and Analysis.