Environment

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Kien Giang Province held a joint conference about plastic waste on June 27 with World Wide Fund for Nature-Vietnam.

Viet Nam is a favorable location for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to implement its new projects on environmental protection, and is willing to get involved in global, inter-regional and inter-field projects.

Vinh Phuc Province People's Committee has proposed rejection of a USD350m textile project in the area due to pollution concerns.

Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities plan to reduce the exploitation of groundwater from now to 2025 to prevent land subsidence and protect residents’ health.

A mobile application was launched by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of Ho Chi Minh City on June 21 to teach people how to classify solid waste at home.

The capital city of Hanoi is working to realise its set target to make tap water safe for drinking by 2020.

Environment workers have shown shocking scenes from what they took from sewage pipes in HCM City.

The Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang Van Thang held a meeting on land erosion in Mekong Delta with representatives from 13 cities and provinces.

The European Union (EU) and European countries have been carrying out a number of climate change adaptation and sustainable development projects in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.

The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) conference on climate change response toward sustainability officially commenced in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on June 19.

The sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility and related meetings will take place in the central city of Da Nang from June 23-29, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Decades of commercial mountaineering have turned Mount Everest into the world's highest rubbish dump as an increasing number of big-spending climbers pay little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind.

Training on waste collection and classification, a contest on initiatives to reduce plastic rubbish and beach clean-up campaigns were featured at the programme “Action for a Green Ha Long: Towards zero-waste tour programmes” on June 14.

In only a week, two captive Asiatic black bears were rescued in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng, Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) said on Tuesday.

HCM City has set a target of treating 90 per cent discharged water into rivers and canals by 2020.

Mass fish deaths have been found in lakes near the UNESCO world heritage site of Ha Long Bay.

An uncompleted electric fence has been unable to prevent wild elephants from looking for food at farms and gardens in Dong Nai Province.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has opposed mud dumping of Vinh Tan 1 thermal power plant for the concerns of possible impact on the maritime ecosystem.

Renewable energy does not need to be imported and will help Vietnam save lots of money in the future, according to Bui Vinh Thang, Business Developer at Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd.