The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) held a teleconference on March 23 to discuss a project on forming a network of air quality monitoring stations in Vietnam.
All health facilities in Hanoi are expected to have standard wastewater treatment systems by 2020 and five years later, all hazardous medical waste from the facilities should be collected and treated properly.
Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) has taken measures to prevent forest fires and smoke as the country will host the 2018 Asian Games (ASIAD 18) next month, which is the regular time of forest and peat land fire in Indonesia each year.
The capital city of Hanoi is willing to host networking events as well as investment and technology transfer promotion activities for Vietnamese and Finnish businesses.
Hanoi plans to install an additional 70 air monitoring stations to improve air quality, according to the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
The French embassy and the French Development Agency (AFD) will provide a funding worth 120,000 EUR for a technical assistance project on assessing the status of the air environment in Hanoi.