At the meeting (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Over the last three years, religiousestablishments have carried out some 1,000 projects in environmental protectionand climate change combat, heard a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on May 16.
The projects were established under the coordination programme topromote the role of religions in protecting the environment and responding toclimate change.
All 63 cities and provinces signed programmes and plans on coordinationbetween the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF), the natural resources andenvironment sector, and religious organisations in this regard.
The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) has popularised the Party’s guidelinesand the State’s laws and policies on environmental protection and and climatechange response at Buddhist schools and courses.
Catholic organisation Caritas Vietnam has also worked to raise publicawareness of the matter.
Ngo Sach Thuc, Vice President of the VFF Central Committee and head ofthe steering board for the coordination programme, said the VFF will step upcoordination with competent agencies and religious organisations incommunications work.
The VFF at all levels will also join hands with the Ministry of NaturalResources and Environment (MoNRE) in compiling and delivering relevant documentsto religious figures.
Deputy Minister of MoNRE Vo Tuan Nhan said the ministry will enhancepartnerships in organising conferences and training courses in an effort toimprove awareness amongst religious people about environmental protection andclimate change combat.
Knut Christiansen, Director of theNordic Assistance to Vietnam/Norwegian Church Aid (NAV/NCA), said that over theyears the NAV/NCA has helped Vietnam carry out many projects to improve itscapacity in climate change response.
The organisation will further itscoordination with competent Vietnamese agencies to effectively implementsolutions to protect the environment and ease pollution, he pledged.–VNA
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