The 2013 Earth Hour campaign You and I, Together We Act kicks off on March 23 at the August Revolution Square in front of the Hanoi Opera House in Ha Noi.

Conserving water resources offers more opportunities for cooperation than disputes, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has stated.

More than 200 domestic and foreign delegates are attending the fourth High-level Seminar on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (HLS ESC), which got underway in Hanoi on March 21 within the framework of the East Asian Environment Ministers’ Meeting (EAS EMM).

The fourth Regional 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) Forum in Asia closed in Hanoi on March 20 with the adoption of the Hanoi 3R Declaration – Sustainable 3R Goals for Asia for 2013-2023.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) held a ceremony in Hanoi on March 20 to mark World Meteorological Day (March 23).

The Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) workshop on water and river basin management will take place in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho from March 20-23, with nearly 150 delegates from 51 ASEM member nations and relevant organisations taking part.

All activities dealing with climate change need to be streamlined in national development policies to raise their effectiveness, Vietnamese representatives to the 3rd Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in the Republic of Korea have said.

Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV) has coordinated with South Africa’s Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) to produce and release two new posters for their rhino-protection campaign.

By 2020, provinces in the Central Highlands must increase forest coverage to 55 percent from the current level of 51.3 percent, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai told a conference in Buon Ma Thuot City on March 14.

The Vietnam Development Communication Centre (VDIC) of the World Bank in Vietnam in coordination with the RoK Development Institute (KDI) and members of the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) held an online workshop themed “Reforestation” in Hanoi on March 13.

About 80,000 residents will benefit from a new 4.5 million USD water supply system, funded by the Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA), in Buon Ho Town, Dak Lac Province.

Policy makers in southern Long An province have been provided with alternative ways to respond to climate change and its related threats under a two year pilot project.

Hanoi needs to improve its management of underground water as a large amount of the resource is being exploited without long-lasting state control procedures in place, which can result in water degradation.

An international workshop on solid waste management and treatment was held on March 11 by the Can Tho City People’s Committee in coordination with the AKIA project ( Germany ) in Vietnam.