At least 50 million people in Vietnam will be exposed to the impacts of rising sea levels and more powerful tropical storms and typhoons, among other threats. - VnExpress International
One step forward, two steps back: Vietnam s short-sighted energy vision
By Nguyen Dang Anh Thi April 1, 2021 | 07:50 am GMT+7
Vietnam needs to learn the right lessons from Germany s experience – going from protests against renewable energy to becoming one of the top five nations in clean power.
Nguyen Dang Anh Thi
I choose to talk about Germany because most of the feed-in-tariff policies for Vietnam s renewable energy have been designed using the German model and built with consultation from the Deutshe Gesellschaftür Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) or German Corporation for International Cooperation, an agency that provides services in the field of international development cooperation.
Not to put too fine a point on it, fine dust kills
By Nguyen Dang Anh Thi January 21, 2021 | 07:00 am GMT+7
The full stop at the end of this sentence is 1,000 times bigger, which only makes fine dust a silent, deadly assassin.
Nguyen Dang Anh Thi
So when we talk about fine dust, let us not forget that coal-fired power plants are a major producer of this killer.
On learning that China had spent $17.3 billion to clear the air in its capital Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics, I decided to visit the city two years later.
Beijing, where the Great Wall of China stands, had been on my go-to list for years. But I kept putting it off because