Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 12 Responsible consumption and production
Environmental protection must be at the core of socio-economic development targets
Predictions on the intensity and impacts of environmental issues on various aspects of the socio-economy must be highlighted in the draft documents submitted to the 13th Party Congress, says deputy head of the Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) Nguyễn Hưng Thịnh.Among socio-economic targets in the 2021-25 ...
Time to think about recycling of end-of-life solar panels: experts
The growth of solar power generation in Việt Nam has come alongside increasing concern over the disposal of end-of-life solar panels in the coming decades.The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued a circular regulating solar power project development and power purchase contracts in which, project investors ...
For a non-plastic waste marine environment
Marine pollution in Vietnam due to plastic waste continues to increase, having significantly affected the ecosystem, organisms and people’s health over recent years.Waste from land and marine-based sources; the capacity to manage it, collection and treatment of waste; public awareness about protecting the marine environment ...
Communities may be granted power to monitor environmental protection activities
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is considering revising the Law on Environmental Protection which took effect in 2014. Three core topics set for amendment are removing required environmental licenses, assessing the environmental impacts of projects and the treatment of solid domestic waste.For the first ...
Revised environmental protection highlights recycling: NA
The principle of “considering waste as a resource” mentioned in the environmental protection bill introduced in the National Assembly’s meeting in April has been clarified, emphasising recycling and reusing.According to the bill, if households and individuals classify waste at source, they would not have to ...
Solving the ‘waste crisis’ in Hanoi with waste-to-electricity plants
Waste-to-electricity is believed to be the best solution to the waste crisis in Hanoi, but one waste-to-electricity plant will not be enough.Dr. Edward McBean from Guelph University in Canada said it is not difficult to import European technologies to use at Asian waste treatment plans. ...
Thanh Lich
Has Vietnam’s sustainable agriculture developed well?
Consuming green organic farm produce is a growing tendency in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the scale of the sustainable agriculture remains modest.Many problems have been cited. The legal framework related to green agricultural production still has problems. There are uncertainties in planning and the policies to attract ...
Mai Lan
Environmentally-friendly production and consumption to enhanced
The production and use of environmentally-friendly and recycled products will be encouraged in economic development plans for the 2021-30 period.In 2021-2025, laws and policies on sustainable production and consumption will be employed, including regulations, technical standards of sustainable production, ecological designs, designs for reusing and recycling ...
Innovation Challenge launched to tackle plastic pollution in ASEAN
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), on June 24 launched an ASEAN-wide innovation challenge to deal with plastic waste in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay and Thailand’s Koh Samui (Samui Island) in 2020, followed by Indonesia and ...
National action plan on sustainable production, consumption issued
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has signed a decision approving the national action plan on sustainable production and consumption for 2021-2030. In the period from 2021-2025, the plan sets the goal of reducing fuel and material use of production industries such as textile-garment, steel, plastic, ...
