Environment and natural resources

The first international consultation workshop on building a national action plan on marine plastic debris management was jointly held in Hanoi on December 10, by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Canadian Embassy in Vietnam.At the event, experts from Canada, the Republic ...

The amount of solid waste in Việt Nam has kept surging with more complicated components as a result of increasing population and human activities, according to a report released. But treating the waste and reducing its harmful impacts on the environment still poses challenges to ...

Scientists discovered 157 new animal and plant species in the Greater Mekong region last year, according to a report titled  “New species on the block”. It describes three mammal, 23 fish, 14 amphibian, 26 reptile, and 91 plant species discovered in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and ...

Protecting the marine environment and restoring the ecosystem has been identified as one of the major objectives for sustainable development in Việt Nam, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà said.Keep reading   ...

An agreement on legally-sourced timber imports from Vietnam to the EU that was finally signed in October is now being held up against the reality on the ground in the Southeast Asian country. The EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan with ...

A study by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) shows that one of the most critical problems for environmental security is climate change. Climate change has made natural disasters, especially storms, floods, and droughts, increasingly worse, causing environmental upheavals and ecological crisis, ...

At the 24th UN Conference on Climate Change (COP24), Germanwatch released the most up-to-date Climate Risk Index ranking, which analyses the extent to which each country has been affected by weather-related loss events. According to Germanwatch’s report, Việt Nam ranks 6th globally, the highest of any ...

Climate change is the biggest challenge to Việt Nam and the agricultural sector, and farmers and the poor are the most vulnerable. In response, a number of measures have been taken by the country to mitigate climate change.Keep reading ...

All households and commercial establishments in HCM City have to segregate their solid waste at source into organic and other wastes from Saturday. The rubbish has in fact to be classified into three types – organic, recyclable and other wastes.Keep reading ...

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has asked people’s committees of localities at central levels to make plans to use ash and cinder for construction and other purposes. The reuse of ash and cinder can help protect the environment and meet socio-economic development requirements, he ...