Environmental audit to be effective management tool in Vietnam

An environmental audit is well established in countries with modern industries, but is very new to developing countries including Vietnam.

In Vietnam, although environmental audits have been implemented by a number of organisations and units, up to now, there has been no general technical guidance. Therefore, in some cases, any environmental audit is simply integrated into financial audit or inspection and examination process.

The VISI is seeking feedback on technical guidance on environmental self-audits in businesses and service establishments to provide general information about the process, content and methods for organisations to proactively research and perform environmental audits in the near future.

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