A national action plan on green growth was launched on July 2 by the
Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI) with the assistance from the
UN Development Programme.
The action plan aims
to realise the National Strategy on Green Growth by 2020 with a vision
to 2050, which was approved by the Prime Minister on September 25, 2012
with a total capital of 30 billion USD.
First of
all, the ministry will review development plans of localities,
ministries and sectors with a view to adjusting them along the green
growth orientation.
Ministries, sectors and
localities are required to develop their own plans of action to promote
green growth and seek suitable mechanisms to mobilize funding for
carrying out these plans.
The MoPI said
attention should be paid to developing environmentally-friendly
industries, reducing energy consumption in production, transport and
trade and promoting the use of new clean energies. Besides, measures
should be sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through developing
sustainable agriculture, increasing the recycle of agricultural
by-products, and expanding forest coverage to 45 percent by 2020.
New transport, energy and irrigational works should be designed to be
able to adapt to climate change. New urban areas must meet new green
standards while existing towns and cities will have to make changes to
improve their environment.
According to the
strategy, Vietnam is striving to decrease greenhouse gas emission in
2020 by 8-10 percent compared with that of 2010, while increasing the
value of green and high technology products in GDP to 42-45 percent.-VNA