The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee held a conference in Hanoi on January 12 to review their cooperation programme for the 2017-2020 period.
Landslide in Dien Bien province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) held a meeting in Hanoi on January 11 to discuss launching a project on building an
The project aims to survey and update information about landslides and flashfloods in
Vietnamese mountainous and midland regions based on effective joint work between local authorities and socio-political organisations, develop an inter-sectoral information management system for sensitive areas to mitigate human and material loss.
Head of the ministry’s Department of Science and Technology Tran Binh Trong said the project will build a
real-time data management system and monitoring stations, as well as help issue legal documents to launch the task in the field, and raise public awareness of the effort.
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The Vietnamese Government has over the past time exerted a great deal of effort in addressing plastic waste in oceans by introducing various policies and regulations to tackle the scourge.
A fish model made of environmentally-friendly material is set up at My Khe beach in Da Nang city, which enables locals and tourists to collect plastic waste. It aims to raise public awareness of plastic pollution in the ocean (Photo: VNA)
Policies on reducing plastic waste in oceans
An illegal quarry in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong (Photo: baolamdong.vn)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has asked the
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to formulate a set of green
growth criteria for Vietnam to better harmonise economic growth with
environmental protection.
Speaking
at the ministry’s conference to review the implementation of environmental
policies in 2020, Dung also called for efforts from the ministry to control
large sources of waste, prevent the risk of negative environmental incidents,
step up programmes to deal with pollution and improve air and water quality.
Environment
Minister Tran Hong Ha said 2020 was a difficult year for Vietnam as it suffered