The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam will pay
attention to new projects proposed by the Vietnamese side in the fields
of climate change and preserving bio-diversity.
UNDP
Country Director Louise Chamberlain made the pledge at an annual session
in Hanoi on August 20 with the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment to review their cooperation and work out their future
projects.
Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and
Environment Tran Hong Ha asked UNDP for continued support in projects of
natural resources and environment in parallel with helping Vietnam in
setting up measurements of the development of its green economy in the
near future.
The ministry intends to propose five
projects to UNDP encompassing reserving significant wetlands; improving
the implementation capacity of the Rio Convention in Vietnam and the
climate change strategy; areas contaminated with pesticide chemicals;
and benefits of natural resources sharing.
UNDP is
among the international organisations supporting Vietnam in many
environment-related projects, with seven conducted so far.
Louise Chamberlain said the projects that have been supported by UNDP,
including those on building climate change response capacity and
treating environmental pollution at dioxin-contaminated areas, have been
on the right track.
For other projects that are underway, she
urged the Ministry to shorten the appraising and approval time to make
the implementation process speedy.-VNA