Vietnam currently ranks fourth in the world in marine pollution with nearly 40,000 tonnes of domestic solid waste discharged by 28 coastal provinces and cities each day, DAV Deputy Director Nguyen Hung Son said, adding that meanwhile, the country lacks extensive research studies on marine pollution and assessment of its impacts on security and national defence.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
New dams on 3S rivers endanger survival of the Mekong
Plans to further dam the Sesan, Srepok and Sekong tributaries of the Mekong River risk food security and already endangered wildlife
Road to opportunity after flooding disaster in Vietnam
By the end of October 2020, Vietnam’s Disaster Management Authority estimated that seven million people in 12 central provinces were affected by the storms, and 1.3 million were in need of humanitarian assistance.
Dams are not a panacea to the planet’s climate crisis
“Moreover, nearly 80% of greenhouse gases emitted by dam reservoirs are methane, the gas which is a highly accelerating agent in causing global warming. In hundred years, dams have produced more methane than rice cultivation and biomass burning.”
Damage of Tibetan environment is dangerous for entire humanity
As a result, it is impacting the natural flow of water to all riparian countries like India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos, etc. “Moreover, with the help of massive hydropower plants on these dams China is attempting to pump out and steal the water of these rivers which actually belongs to the downstream riparian countries,” she said.
Ben Tre develops forests in climate change response
Ben Tre province in the Mekong Delta has issued a plan to carry out a project on coastal forest protection and development in adaptation with climate change and green growth promotion for the 2021-2030 period.
Thailand and Vietnam atop 20 countries with the least ambitious climate policies
Scientific analysts Climate Action Tracker (CAT) have examined government policy of 40 countries that account for the vast majority of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Cambodian PM orders large-scale crackdown on land grabs to save country’s largest lake
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Sunday ordered relevant authorities to launch a large-scale crackdown on illegal land grabs around the kingdom’s largest freshwater lake, Tonle Sap, and to seize back all the encroached land.
Construction of power transmission line from Lao to Vietnam started
This line plays the role of transmitting imported electricity from the Nam Mo Hydropower Plant cluster (Laos) to Vietnam to fulfill bilateral commitments on cooperation between the two governments in the field of energy development. According to the agreement signed between Vietnam and Laos, the former will import about 3,000MW of electricity from the latter by 2025 and increase to 5,000MW by 2030.
Laos hopes for economic boost from Chinese-built railway
“When you look at the juxtaposition of this super modern railway and the countryside it is passing through – it’s very stark. One does wonder whether the Laos people will be the beneficiaries?”