Central city Da Nang to develop waste-to-energy project
The central city of Da Nang plans to build its first waste-to-energy project at Khanh Son dump.
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The central city of Da Nang plans to build its first waste-to-energy project at Khanh Son dump.
The first international consultation workshop on building a national action plan on marine plastic debris management was jointly held in Hanoi on December 10 by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Canadian Embassy in Vietnam.
Residents of the Thousand Islands off Jakarta’s coast are battling waves of trash, with an estimated 40 tonnes of rubbish collected daily over the past week.
Thai Tourism and Sport Minister Weerasak Kowsurat on November 27 pledged to cut tourism-related waste by 50 percent by 2020.
As wildlife-related crimes are able to generate profits almost equal to those from the trafficking of drugs, firearms, and human beings, they are quickly becoming increasingly more of a threat to Vietnam, according to an official from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Vietnam.
Prudential Vietnam Assurance Private Ltd., and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) signed a collaboration agreement on November 16 in Hanoi on the project “Building plastic pollution free communities.”
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, his spouse and the high-ranking delegation of Vietnam arrived in Hanoi on November 15 evening, concluding a trip to Singapore for the 33rd ASEAN Summit and related summits at the invitation of his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged member states of the East Asia Summit (EAS) to strengthen connectivity in their legal systems, infrastructure, and digitization process during the 33th EAS in Singapore on November 15.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has underlined strong commitments of ASEAN in promoting and elevating the strategic partnership and comprehensive cooperation between the grouping and Japan for peace, stability and prosperity of each side as well as the whole region.
Hanoi aims to reduce the use of plastic bags in the traditional markets, supermarkets and trade centres to protect the environment as well as ensure the sustainability of the ecosystem.
Thailand will discuss the issue of marine debris with the ASEAN member countries at the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment (AMME), scheduled to be held in Bangkok next year.
Da Nang has launched a campaign to call on the community to ‘Say No’ to single-use plastic products to deal with pollution and waste treatment costs.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s official visits to Austria, Belgium, Denmark and the European Union (EU) have arrived at a fine success that created many breakthroughs and an important driving force to bring Vietnam’s relations with partners to a depth, manifesting Vietnam’s responsibility to the international community’s common issues.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the Green Growth and the Global Goals (P4G) Summit in Copenhagen on October 20, which also drew leaders of 30 Vietnamese enterprises in green energy, trade, investment, and high technology.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has proposed that the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) should take the pioneer role in promoting multilateral cooperation and international order basing on the law.
The Malaysian Government will ban import of all non-recyclable solid waste, particularly plastic, said Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Yeo Bee Yin has said.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment launched a campaign on October 12, calling for joint efforts in plastic waste prevention nationwide, in response to the 2018 “Make the world cleaner” campaign.
A group of young people go to every locality nationwide to give books and receive plastic garbage, thus encouraging children to develop the sense of environmental protection and reading enjoyment.
