Environment and natural resources

Vietnam began today with the help of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) a project aimed at strengthening the adaptability of coastal communities vulnerable to climate change. Executable for five years and valued at some 30 million dollars that will contribute the Green Climate Fund, ...

The Water Resources Directorate (WRD) plans to repair some 700 reservoirs at high risk of bursting by 2030, an official said on November 23.Keep reading ...

Geothermal energy can be economically efficient and environmentally friendly, scientists say.[] According to the chair of the Vietnam Clean Energy Association, Ta Van Huong, Vietnam has geothermal potential at the average level. The great advantage of Vietnam is that the energy source is located throughout the ...

Vietnam’s coal-fired power plants which generate electricity and those serving industrial plants are worsening pollution. Le Anh Tuan, deputy head of the Institute for Climate Change Studies under the Can Tho University, as in India and China, said that coal-fired power in Vietnam mostly serves industrial ...

Vietnam has made a lot of achievements in the implementation of the 2006-2020 national forestry development strategy, contributing to the protection of natural environment, reduction of natural disasters and transition of self-supplied forestry production into a commodity-based one. Keep reading    ...

Water resources have become a source of increasing conflict, highlighting issues of unsustainable exploitation and environmental degradation, experts say. The conflicts are at several levels – between development policy and preserving the environment, damage claims over, and access to water for daily life and production.Keep ...

The disposal of electronic waste in Viet Nam has been rapidly increasing for several years. However, the current recycling process amounts to preliminary processing and can hardly produce raw materials for re-production, experts have said.Keep reading ...

 The rich aquatic resources on Serepok River are in danger as more hydropower dams are being built on the mainstream, leading to changes in the water current and environment. Serepok has a basin area of 12,030 square kilometers in Vietnam and mainstream total length of 290 ...

With the participation of 21 economies representing 39% of the world’s population and 57% of global GDP, APEC is considered the most regional economic forum worldwide, making intensive and extensive impacts on member economies. In order to ease losses caused by climate changes, member economies ...

What is happening due to floods in the North Central and northern provinces show that disasters are more severe in terms of both scale and extent of devastation. Over the past 50 years, extreme weather events such as hot and dry weather and heavy rains ...