Climate change has become increasingly unpredictable, leaving behind various adverse impacts on all aspects of life. It is, therefore, necessary for the whole Vietnamese community to collaborate in order to limit such effects.
The European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) this morning held the Green Economy Forum and Exhibition (GEFE) 2022 in Ho Chi Minh City to promote sustainable cooperation between Europe and Vietnam through comprehensive dialogue, investment collaboration, competence sharing and technology transformation.
The Vietnamese Government is prioritizing climate change responses, green economy, sustainable development in its action programs. Therefore, businesses are advised to adapt to these concepts for their own growth.
The Vietnamese and US agencies on November 15 launched a five-year US$11.3 million project called “Reducing Pollution” to help lessen environmental pollution in Vietnam.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh My, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment, has just said that, as of June 30, 2022, 18,684,360 tons of Covid-19 healthcare waste in the city have been collected and treated.
The Communist Youth Unions of the Ho Chi Minh City Natural Resources and Environment Department and the HCMC Institute for Development Studies (HIDS) this morning held a meeting on ‘Implementing the Program to Reduce Environment Pollution in HCMC from 2020-2030’.
Besides mobilizing resources to support women in difficult circumstances and single moms, the two units also urged women to protect the environment, plant trees, sort waste at the source, and fight against plastic waste pollution.
To address plastic pollution, Vietnam needs a progressive phase-out, accompanied by the promotion of viable alternatives and an improved solid waste management system, Moderndiplomacy.eu has said, citing a newly-released study by World Bank (WB).
The Vietnam National Plastics Action Partnership says the amount of plastic in waterways could more than double by 2030 if the country’s current waste collection, recycling, and treatment processes are not improved.
Australian science will deliver new innovations to tackle plastic waste in the Indo-Pacific, with a Plastics Innovation Hub being launched in Vietnam, according to the Australian Embassy in Vietnam.
Along with the achievements in socio-economic development, Ho Chi Minh City is facing many challenges in terms of environmental pollution from its economic growth and urbanization process. Accordingly, the southern metropolis has been making efforts to build environmentally friendly city as protecting the environment is essential to sustainable economic growth.
Thousands of visitors flocked to tourist destinations of HCMC and its neighboring provinces of Dong Nai, Binh Duong, and the coastal city of Vung Tau during the three-day holidays which lasted from April 9 to celebrate the Hung King’s Commemoration Day.
In the circular economy associated with green growth that Vietnam is aiming for, by-products and waste in the production process are considered renewable resources.
Local people and the business community of the central province of Quang Nam have recently got used to protecting the environment, developing and promoting green tourism through friendly products in tourism activities that attract many visitors.
The Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper (SGGP), on March 26, coordinated with the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union to organize the lights-out event to respond to the 2022 Earth Hour Campaign with the theme "Shape Our Future". The program attracted thousands of volunteers at the main venue of the Youth Cultural House and more than 80,000 online volunteers.
Ho Chi Minh City will soon have clean energy transition strategies, so the city wishes Norway to promote cooperation in this field and others including economy, trade, investment, tourism, waste treatment with modern technology, and so on in the coming time.
The Social Business Creation (SBC) 2021 competition wrapped up in Canada with the first prize awarded to the Nanoneem project of two Vietnamese universities.
Countries in the world have been making efforts to demonstrate their commitments to the climate change battle with the aim to minimize negative impacts on ecosystems and develop a green economy. This change is foreseen to greatly affect the production activities of Vietnamese enterprises.
