Vietnam an active, responsible country in climate change fight: official

Pham Van Tan, Deputy Director of the MoNRE’s Department of Climate Change and deputy head of the Vietnamese delegation to COP27 (Photo: VNA)

Cairo (VNA) – Vietnamhas been assessed by the international community as an active and responsiblecountry in the global climate change fight, an official of the Ministry ofNatural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has said.

Pham Van Tan, Deputy Director of the MoNRE’sDepartment of Climate Change, made the remark while talking to the Vietnam NewsAgency on the sidelines of the 27th session of the Conference of theParties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in SharmEl-Sheikh city, Egypt.

Amid a global energy crisis andeconomic downturn after the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have been unableto realise their commitments made at COP26 in Galsgow last year. In thatcontext, Vietnam has emerged as an active country with many works implemented, accordingto the deputy head of the Vietnamese delegation toCOP27.

He elaboratedthat thanks to drastic moves by the Government and the entire political system,Vietnam has set up a steering committee for implementing the COP26 commitments,adopted a national strategy on climate change, updated the nationallydetermined contributions (NDCs) report, approved a plan for methane emissionreduction, and detailed targets and tasks for realising climate change-related commitments.In the 2022 NDCs, Vietnam raised its commitment level in line with the roadmapfor bringing net emissions down to zero by 2050.

A discussion of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh city, Egypt (Photo: VNA)

Many international partners, especiallythe UK, the US, the EU, and the G7, shared the view that Vietnam has quicklycarried out measures and plans to translate commitments into actions, he noted,adding that the country was invited to attend and talk about what havebeen done so far. Minister Tran Hong Ha engaged in many working sessions withinternational organisations and financial institutions to highlight Vietnam’sefforts and cooperation chances.

At some major events within the COP27framework, the Vietnamese side affirmed that its Government has made plans andapproved a strategy for implementing the COP26 commitments. It also emphasised thathow far the country can make progress in realising its commitments depends onother countries’ commitment implementation and the international community’sassistance for Vietnam, according to Tan.

The biggest result of Vietnam at thisconference is that it demonstrated itself as an active, proactive, andresponsible country in the realisation of international commitments, he wenton, noting that low-carbon development, net zero emissions by 2050, and climatechange adaptation form a path that it is consistently following so as to bothdevelop sustainably and contributing to the global climate change fight.

However,the official also pointed out that to carry out climate commitments, thecountry needs to exert utmost efforts and mobilise domestic resources andassistance from the international community./.

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