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Webinar discusses solutions to ecosystem restoration in Vietnam
Vietnam needs to encourage and improve capacity and responsibility for the environment and nature and implement preventive actions in management agencies and businesses to minimize nature degradation, said Dr. Nguyen Dinh Dap from the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS)’s Institute of Human Geography.Assessing environmental ...
Mekong Delta urgently needs climate change data: Conference
A conference was held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on November 18 to raise local young people’s awareness of the importance of a database for environmental protection and climate change response.It was part of a project to build a communication programme to ...
Absence of seasonal flooding washes away Mekong Delta livelihood
The enforced absence of annual flooding that Vietnam’s Mekong Delta heavily depends on for agriculture and aquaculture has put the livelihoods of millions at stake.For several years, the annual flooding that has nourished the delta for centuries has been late, deficient or absent, and experts ...
Ngoc Tai
Mekong Delta's biggest irrigation system near completion
A mega irrigation system to save southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta from drought and salinity will be fully completed in two weeks.The system worth VND3.3 trillion ($142.17 million) comprises two parts on the Cai Lon and Cai Be rivers, both originating in Hau Giang Province and ...
Cuu Long
Law on Water Resources should be amended to ensure water security: Expert
Although substantial results have been achieved after nine years of implementing the Law on Water Resources 2012, some shortcomings have been revealed, resulting in ineffective use of water and causing loss of budget revenue, according to Chau Tran Vinh, Director of the Department of Water ...
Covid infection surge without deaths can facilitate herd immunity: expert
High Covid-19 infection rates with low numbers of severe cases and deaths can push HCMC towards herd immunity. However, the new normal can’t return to the old normal.After spending four months under social distancing measures, Ho Chi Minh City began reopening in October, allowing numerous ...
Le Phuong, Cam Van
EPR helps Vietnam build a 'green’ recycling industry: experts
While affirming the role of extended producer responsibility (EPR) in supporting waste treatment and the circular economy is closely linked to each other, many experts believed that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) needs to come up with a roadmap for the implementation ...
$4 billion investment in climate change response announced at COP26 Summit
The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate), a major new initiative led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and United States (US) with the support of over 30 governments, officially launched on 02 November. This includes $4 billion in investments to accelerate innovation ...
Local communities lend a hand to forest protection
Kon Ka Kinh National Park, located in the Kon Hà Nừng Plateau Biosphere Reserve, the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, is being protected thanks to the engagement of the local ethnic minority community. Twenty-six communities of the Bahnar ethnic group have been assigned the ...
Gender equality to be included in community’s code of ethics
Under a new decision by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, the village code and convention at every grassroots level in the country will include principles like gender equality in society and family, as well as no gender-based discrimination.The amendment and supplementation to community ethical codes ...
