The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is coordinating with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to host the Sixth International Conference on Community-based Adaptation (CBA6) in Hanoi from April 19-22.

A national Green Climate Fund will soon be set up to facilitate future financial flow from the global Green Climate Fund into Vietnam.

HA NOI — The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has drafted a new circular regulating types of waste that can be imported to Viet Nam for treatment and disposal.

Thousands of students and workers took part in the fifth ‘Waste Recycling Festival’ launched by the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment on April 15.

The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will this year continue to assist Vietnam to monitor and compile its greenhouse gases inventory.

The PM has agreed to re-allocate the credit No. 3475-VN in the framework of the World Bank (WB)-funded Hồ Chí Minh City Environmental Sanitation Project.

The Prime Minister has approved targets for the National Programme for Rural Water Supplies and Sanitation during the 2012-15 period.

The instrument can sample SO2, NO2, NOX, NH3, and analyze air pollution level to have ways to adjust on time.

Experts warned that with the current flood control system, HCM City may be inadequate for a disaster similar to the one in Bangkok in October, 2011.

Việt Nam is on the path to shifting its growth model to a green one to realize its goal of restructuring the economy toward being more efficient, competent as well as being capable of cutting greenhouse emission and responding to climate change.