The Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) in cooperation with SAWTEE organised a 3-day workshop on “Trade Promotion through Standardisation in the South and South East Asia (SESA) regions” during October 21 – 23, 2012 at Gokarna Forest Hotel Resort in Kathmandu, Nepal. More than 40 participants from National Standard Bodies, private organisations and companies from 8 countries in South and South East Asia took part in the workshop to get understandings about the way to make comments and submit comments to the draft ISO 13065 on Criteria for Sustainable Bioenergy. They also discussed necessary preparations for upcoming events of the programme in Brisbane in 2013. Alice Pham and Thanh Ha attended this workshop.