Category: Viet Nam
Vietnam and Cambodia: Leveraging Support to Enhance Climate Ambition
Countries claim superlative leadership on climate action.
Vietnam Revises Environmental Protection Law But Enforcement a Concern
New law to give communities a bigger role in conservation and impose responsibilities on corporations, but monitoring mechanisms questionable.
Vietnam’s solid waste up 46 pct in decade – Vietnam Express
Meanwhile, the domestic solid waste collection rate was recorded at around 92 percent nationally in 2019.
UN pledges more support to Vietnam in climate change response
The UN will also help the country consolidate dykes and its Red and Mekong Delta regions cope with climate change-related challenges.
Natural disasters: 1.5% GDP loss for Vietnam
About 35 percent of the population in the Mekong Delta will also be influenced, as 40.5 percent of the total rice output of this region will be lost.
Typhoon Vamco strikes Vietnam showing force of climate crisis
A case study in climate challenges yet again, from sea level rise and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta to the country’s reliance on coal.
Primary forest coverage shrinks to 0.25 percent in Vietnam
Decreased from 4.3 million ha in 2010 to 3.95 million ha in 2019.