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During the past 30 years of participating in the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, Vietnam has made efforts to synchronously implement various mechanisms, policies and solutions to manage and eliminate ...

Green growth and sustainable development is now an inevitable trend and a goal that all countries are striving for, including Vietnam, as it faces environmental problems heavily impacted by climate change.There remain many barriers to green credit supply. Among them, there is still a lack ...

Practicing responsible business in accordance with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria is considered a key that contributes to realising Vietnam’s commitment to bring net emissions to zero by 2050.On the journey towards green growth, ESG criteria are the standard for measuring and evaluating an ...

Viet Nam joined ten other member countries of the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) at the second AZEC Ministerial Meeting held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 21. The event aims to discuss countries’ efforts to pursue net zero emissions targets. AZEC members include: Indonesia, Thailand, ...

From the Green and Clean Energy towards Net Zero forum, Vietnam Economic Times / VnEconomy sought insights and solutions from various stakeholders on developing new energy sources for the country’s green future.Dr. Ta Dinh Thi, Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Science, Technology, ...

Viet Nam’s CO2 emissions should peak in 2030 and the green energy transition needs to happen urgently and at a faster pace than previously.The above finding was highlighted in the Viet Nam Energy Outlook Report-Pathways to Net Zero which was released on June 19. According ...

Vietnam will promote the transition to technologies that utilise substances with low or zero global warming potential, and roll out sustainable cooling solutions to cut emissions by 11.2 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2045 under a national plan on the management and elimination of ...

Vietnam is the world’s top exporter of Robusta coffee, earning nearly US$4.2 billion of export revenue in 2023. If switching to carbon emission reduction production, the income of coffee farmers could double.The production of coffee with reduced emissions towards selling carbon credits has taken its ...

The UK-funded Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) program will be extended until 2029 with additional funding of £40 million (nearly US$51 million) to support at least 800 low-carbon projects in 16 countries, including Vietnam, according to a British diplomat.The CFA Vietnam has so far undergone two ...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasised the urgent need to develop a carbon market and carbon credit management mechanisms in his recently-issued directive.In Vietnam, since the mid-2000s, many businesses have rolled out carbon credit programmes and projects, notably those under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). ...