Seven NGOs point to serious flaws in the EU agreement due to the continuous flow of illegal timber into Vietnamese market from neighboring countries, especially Cambodia.
Category: Viet Nam
Experts slam tourism overexploitation plan for Vietnam national park
Experts have slammed a resort planned by a US company in the Bach Ma National Park, saying it will destroy and pollute the environment.
Project helps improve urban planning in Mekong cities
With a total ODA and preferential loans worth US$240 million, the project aims to improve access to infrastructure in priority city areas and improve urban planning in participating cities.
Mekong Delta sinking as groundwater gets depleted
The Mekong Delta is subsiding faster than the rise in sea level, causing urban flooding, and humans are to blame.
Why Vietnam ranks best in world for living greener and better
Despite its achievements, the best-performing nation on the list still fails to meet the sustainability demands of an increasingly dire ecological outlook
UN climate change report launched in Vietnam
In the worst scenario, the sea level could rise up to one metre and permanently flood 40 per cent of the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta by 2100.
Floating PV to splashdown in Vietnam
The project will deploy a 47.5 MW floating solar plant at the water reservoir where its Da Mi hydro power plant is located, in Binh Thuan province.
Vietnam exerts efforts to ease climate change impacts: official
As one of the countries hardest hit by climate change, Vietnam has been actively performing international commitments and exerting efforts to ease its impacts, on official has said.