The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the UNDP on April 14 launched the “Vietnam Persistent Organic Pollutants and Sound Harmful Chemicals Management Project".
Viet Xuan Moi Joint Stock Company puts the first phase of a waste treatment plant using European technology into use in Pho Yen town, Thai Nguyen province, from April.
Environment, a criterion in the national target programme on new countryside development, remains a major challenge facing localities nationwide, to fully realise the Government’s initiative.
Different countermeasures are being employed by many provinces to get through the impacts of drought and saltwater intrusion on local agriculture and aquaculture.
Due to prolonged drought, sea water has intruded the world Ramsar sites in the Mekong Delta, damaging their inundated ecosystem and the rare flora and fauna.
Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap are implementing various precautions to deal with the increasing likelihood of a forest fire emergency due to the prolonged dry period.
The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu has carried out several rural and irrigational works to cope with climate change, using funds from the government’s budget and foreign loans.
The Prime Minister has approved the amended decision on the development of drainage in Vietnam’s urban centres and industrial parks up to 2025 and a vision towards 2050.
HCM City has announced that it will pump an estimated 11.61 trillion VND (505 million USD) into 84 projects in an attempt to reduce floods over the next five years.
Officials from the transport sectors of southern provinces urged the Government to issue special policies to encourage the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in public transportation.
Vietnamese and German experts gathered at a workshop in Can Tho city on April 8 to seek effective models for waste water treatment at industrial parks in the Mekong Delta.