Environment and natural resources
Enhancing the implementation of commitments on climate change
Responding to climate change is an important and urgent task, to address domestic needs and contribute to global climate change efforts. Therefore, Vietnam must continue strengthening this work, implementing green transformation, developing a low-carbon economy, and moving towards a circular economy as outlined in the ...
Khanh Huy
Việt Nam aims to collect $131.5 million for forest environmental services
The Việt Nam Forest Protection and Development Fund has announced that in 2025 it will continue reviewing revenue sources and strengthening efforts to ensure timely payments by units utilising forest environmental services. Lê Văn Thanh, the fund’s Deputy Director, said the goal is to collect VNĐ3.3 ...
Carbon market development project approved
Under Prime Ministerial Decision No 232/QD-TTg, signed by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, a project on the establishment and development of Vietnam’s carbon market has been approved. Its primary goal is to develop a carbon market in Vietnam to help meet greenhouse gas (GHG) ...
Vân Nguyễn
Vietnam embraces circular economy with national action plan till 2035
Between now and 2030, Vietnam is committed to reducing the extraction and use of non-renewable and water resources, while simultaneously enhancing the efficiency of resource, material and energy usage. The plan spans key sectors, including agro-forestry-fisheries, energy, mineral extraction and processing; manufacturing and processing, chemicals, construction, ...
Vietnam, UNDP strengthen coastal resilience to climate change
Over 25,000 Vietnamese residents in seven coastal localities are now safeguarded by storm-and flood-resistant homes thanks to a project on improving resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change in Vietnam. The project, which runs from 2017 to 2024, also restored 4,028 ha of mangrove ...
Suggested mechanisms for successful carbon market
Identifying effective mechanisms for successfully introducing a carbon market requires clear regulations, financial incentives, and international collaboration.According to Professor Nguyen The Chinh, Vice President of the Vietnam Association for Environmental Economics (VIASEE), the successful implementation of a carbon market is a complex task that involves ...
Song Hà
Forum aims to foster cooperation in building sustainable agriculture
The Francophone Parliamentary Cooperation Forum on Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security, and Climate Change Response was convened by the Vietnamese National Assembly during the Conference of the Executive Board of the Francophone Parliamentary Union (APF) in Can Tho City. The forum aims to promote cooperation between ...
Translated By Dan Thuy
Waste classification at source needs solutions to suit each locality: experts
All households in Việt Nam are expected to separate their solid household waste and place it in trash bags; failure to do so could result in fines of between VNĐ500,000 and VNĐ1 million. But as the search for appropriate solutions to classify waste at the source ...
Policy reform – paramount in Vietnam’s plastic waste reduction: experts
Dr Nguyen Trung Thang and a research team from the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment have proposed a three-pronged approach that combines policy reform, market incentives and public awareness improvement to combat Vietnam’s growing plastic waste crisis.Through the ministry’s project ...
Applying technology in conservation of endangered, precious and rare animals and plants
Ninh Thuan, a typically sunny and windy land of the central region, is famous for its majestic landscape and for being home to a diverse and rich ecosystem.To improve the effectiveness of management, especially the protection and development of resources in Ninh Thuan Province, it ...