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Farmers harvest coffee in in Đức Cơ District in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai. The Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of climate change show how vulnerable and interconnected the world we live in is. VNA/VNS
HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnam jumped five spots to reach 49th position in the world for sustainable development in 2020 on the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, partly thanks to the efforts of local businesses, according to Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam.
At the Vietnam Sustainable Development Business Forum 2020 (VCSF 2020) held in Hanoi on Thursday (Dec 10), Đam said he appreciated the efforts of firms in the last 10 years, especially in how they developed amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Sustainability is an important priority for society, and one which Microsoft takes very seriously. We announced in January that we will be going carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 we aim to have removed from the environment all of the carbon we have emitted since the company was founded in 1975.
We’ve backed up this commitment with the launch of our Climate Innovation Fund. The fund is investing $1 billion over the next four years in new technologies and innovative sustainability solutions, backing others so that they can be successful in their sustainability journey. We’ve also joined nine other organisations to become a founder member of the Transform to Net Zero initiative, which aims to deliver guid