Environment

Many localities in the Mekong Delta region are focusing on attracting investment and developing renewable energy projects, helping to solve energy security issues and driving socio-economic breakthroughs in the region.

FPT Information System Company Limited (FPT IS) and Carbon EX have just signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in providing services and solutions to promote carbon credit projects.

State President Vo Van Thuong on February 15 launched the national tree planting festival 2024 in Kim Phu commune of Tuyen Quang province, northern Vietnam.

A group of young volunteers in HCM City have cleaned over 150 polluted canals in HCM City and surrounding provinces, collecting over 2,000 tonnes of rubbish over the past year.

Many bears at the Vietnam Bear Sanctuary in Tam Dao National Park are enjoying the Tet Lunar New Year with their favourite food.

The Bach Dang Wharf Park in HCM City's District 1 was covered in rubbish after thousands of people gathered to watch a fireworks show on the Lunar New Year's Eve on Friday.

A VND1.7 trillion (USD69.38 million) waste-to-energy project in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has been put into use.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has recommended localities in the Mekong Delta to closely monitor saltwater intrusion information and forecast bulletins, which are predicted to peak in February 2024.

Five earthquakes were recorded in Kon Plong district in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum on February 7 morning, according to the Earthquake Information and Tsunami Warning Centre under the Institute of Geophysics.

A 6.5kg hawksbill sea turtle that was accidentally caught by a local man was released back to the sea off the coast of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on February 5.

The central province of Quang Tri has assigned organisations to clear about 42 million sq.m. of land contaminated with cluster bombs this year, said its steering committee for settling war-left unexploded ordnance consequences.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has expressed Vietnam's readiness to collaborate closely with the EU in building an exemplary cooperation model for green transformation, aiming to support developing nations, including Vietnam, in bridging gaps in finance, technology

Maps indicating landslide-prone areas in 37 mountainous and midland areas will be completed by 2025 under an early-warning project managed by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.

The Asian Development Bank committed $9.80 billion in climate finance last year, including $5.50 billion for mitigation and $4.30 billion for adaptation, which showed an increase of over 46% against its 2022 climate financing commitments.

Authorities in the central province of Ha Tinh have turned down a proposal from the Vung Ang II Thermal Power Company (VAPCO) to dump three million cubic metres of waste mud into the local sea.

The Mekong Delta region of Vietnam has been forecasted to see the early saline intrusion this year.

Representatives from the Australian Embassy in Vietnam recently visited the Hoang Lien centre for wildlife rescue, conservation and development in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai to work on the care for suspectedly smuggled wallabies.

A delegation of the State Audit Office of Vietnam attended the 22nd meeting of the Working Group on Environmental Auditing of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions held in Finland from January 22 to 25.

Ten protected areas in Vietnam have participated in The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas which is a set of global standards on successful conservation.