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Vietnamese citizens asked on climate change and energy matters

The World Wide Views (WWViews), a global citizen consultation initiative, took place in Vietnam and 80 other countries across the globe on June 6.
The World Wide Views (WWViews), a global citizen consultationinitiative, took place in Vietnam and 80 other countries across theglobe on June 6.

The UN initiative aims to makethe voice of ordinary people concerning climate change and energy issuesheard by policymakers, who, in turn, will engage in internationalnegotiations about future environmental and other issues at the upcomingUN Climate Change Conference, COP21, held in Paris, France in December.

According to the WWViews’s coordinators, the coreof the method is to have citizens at multiple sites debate the samepolicy-related questions relating to a given issue on the same day. Thestandard is to have 100 voters participating at each site, selected toreflect the demographic diversity in their country or region withregards to age, gender, occupation, education, geographical zone ofresidency, and membership of environmental organisations.

The event in Hanoi was co-organised by the Danish Embassy in Vietnamin collaboration with the French Ministry of Ecology, SustainableDevelopment and Energy and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Vietnamese participants’ opinions revolved around a range of subjectsincluding the importance of dealing with global climate change,measures to address the issue, and Vietnamese citizen outlook onsustainable energies.

At the event, Remi Genevey,Vietnam Director of the French Agency for Development, said during the2006-2014 period, his agency granted Vietnam more than 471 million EURto launch climate change projects and supported the country in reformingrelevant policies and establishing the legal framework related toclimate change response and low-carbon growth.

According to Lone Boge Jensen, Political Counsellor at the DanishEmbassy in Hanoi, Denmark was the first country to back Vietnam’sprogramme on dealing with the environmental challenge in 2009-2015.-VNA
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