Vietnam up three places on Sustainable Development Goal Index
According to the fourth annual report on the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Vietnam ranks 54th, up three notches against 2018.
Environmental pollution and climate change are worrying Vietnam, requiring new feasible solutions and growth model transfers to turn challenges into opportunities for sustainable development.
National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong highlighted Vietnam’s achievements in tackling inequality and ensuring fairness for all at the 136th IPU Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 3.
Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Dinh Quy delivered a speech on the third day of the UN Ocean Conference in New York on June 7, stressing that the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is a legal basis for the realisation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14.
Ensuring comprehensive development for children in early years at home and in the community is the goal of a national programme introduced at a consultative workshop in Hanoi on September 8.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has called on all ministries, sectors, international organisations, domestic and foreign businesses, experts, and volunteers to join hands in working towards a Vietnam free of hunger by 2025.
About six million Vietnamese people escaped from poverty between 2012-2016, with the poverty ratio dropping from 15.9 to 9.1 percent during the period, according to a report released on December 19.
