Workshop seeks ways to enhance urban climate resilience in Vietnam

Participants at a national workshop in Hanoi on March 7 sought ways to help raise the climate resilience of Vietnam’s urban centers, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and protect the environment.

Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Tuong Van stressed the significance of the Politburo’s Resolution No. 06-NQ/TW on sustainable urban planning, construction, management and development.

With five viewpoints and six groups of major tasks, the document highlights the role and position of urban areas and urbanisation in national industrialisation and modernisation in the new period, laying the foundation for urban transformation and development in Vietnam in a more comprehensive and systematic fashion, he said.

Keep reading…