Sustainable Development Goals

Vietnam is promoting sustainable agricultural trade and production to reduce deforestation, heard an event under the umbrella of the fourth Global Conference of the Planet Network’s Sustainable Food Systems Programme held in Hanoi on April 25.For sustainable development without causing deforestation, the EU through UNDP ...

In recent years, Vietnam’s agriculture has made a strong transformation, with market-oriented agricultural production, bringing about high quality and added value to producers and farmers. However, the agricultural production process also generates a large amount of waste and by-products, which, if not managed properly, will ...

Carbon credits are gaining traction in the agriculture sector as an instrument to promote sustainable farming practices and improve farmer income. The World Bank would raise $40 million between 2023-2024 and $60 million between 2025-2026 to pay for the carbon credits generated by the one million ...

Việt Nam has a lot of work to do to complete the national marine spatial planning as the country is still at a relatively early stage in the process of formulating both its coastal zone planning and sustainable management of resources. Nguyễn Minh Sơn, a marine ...

International Finance Corporation (IFC) on Thursday introduced its innovation called the Building Resilience Index (BRI) in Vietnam in a bid to help local developers improve the resilience of buildings in the Southeast Asian country.The BRI is a web-based hazard mapping and resilience assessment framework. It ...

Given the importance of green credit to sustainable economic development, the Prime Minister issued the national green growth strategy for 2021 – 2030 with a vision to 2050, and the development strategy for the banking sector by 2025 with orientations towards 2030, which includes orientations ...

The Government Office recently sent an urgent dispatch to the Minister of Industry and Trade regarding recommendations to deal with shortcomings in the building and issuance of a pricing mechanism for electricity generation of transitional wind and solar power plants.On March 20, Minister of Industry ...

The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) will actively advise and perform activities to help women with disabilities in many forms and act as a bridge to connect businesses, social organisations and the whole community to join hands to promote equity and rights for people with disabilities, ...

The Government on April 17 issued Decree on Personal Data Protection which specifies measures and conditions to ensure the work.Under the document, which will take effect from July 1, 2023, those to protect personal data include management and technical measures implemented by organisations and individuals ...

The 2022 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index – PAPI Report on Việt Nam was released on Wednesday, highlighting that poverty remains the primary concern in Việt Nam, particularly in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s PAPI report reflected public optimism about ...