Climate change

The forestry alone can bring 57 million carbon credits, or 52 million tons of CO2, which Vietnam could sell to international organizations.Le Hoang The from The Vos Ecosystem Company said the carbon credit market is a transaction system that buys or sells the rights to ...

Viet Nam joined ten other member countries of the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) at the second AZEC Ministerial Meeting held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 21. The event aims to discuss countries’ efforts to pursue net zero emissions targets. AZEC members include: Indonesia, Thailand, ...

On the afternoon of August 22, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Agriculture and Forestry, in collaboration with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the University of Adelaide (Australia), held a seminar titled “Sharing and Updating Information on Carbon Markets from Coastal ...

In order to turn net-zero emission goals into reality, Vietnam needs to urgently apply measures to encourage people to use public transport and shift to electric vehicles.To reduce emissions to zero, the Prime Minister released Decision 876, approving an action plan on a green energy ...

A meeting on the progress of the World Bank-funded Mekong Delta Climate Resilience and Integrated Transformation Project (MERIT – WB11), which costs more than VND17.75 trillion (approximately $741 million) was held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on August 12 under the chair ...

Vietnam has had milestones in climate transition journey in the past two years, from the country’s Net Zero commitment made at COP26 to its National Climate Change Strategy, of which collaboration and energy transition remain as the focus of this journey, Mr. Tim Evans, CEO of ...

From the Green and Clean Energy towards Net Zero forum, Vietnam Economic Times / VnEconomy sought insights and solutions from various stakeholders on developing new energy sources for the country’s green future.Dr. Ta Dinh Thi, Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Science, Technology, ...

Local and international researchers, practitioners and policy makers met to discuss innovative approaches to the challenges posed by digitalisation and climate change in developing countries at the International Conference on Economics, Law, and Government that wrapped up on Wednesday. The two-day conference with the theme “Approaches ...

The implementation of the Mekong Delta regional masterplan for 2021 – 2030, with a vision towards 2050, has helped shift the mindset about food security from developing agriculture based primarily on rice to a model of aquaculture – fruit – rice to increase value and ...

A carbon market will create motivation for green transition, said Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on July 12. The operation of the carbon market must follow a roadmap under the management of the State, match the capacity and development levels of businesses and the economy, ...