10/10/2016
Currently, air quality is having signs of pollution due to socio-economic development activities. Therefore, enhancement in application of advanced scientific and technological results in air quality management is necessary. In recent years, the Environmental Source Samplers Incs Company (ESS) has promoted the cooperation with Việt Nam on scientific and technological transfer in air emission contr...
10/10/2016
Public - private partnership (PPP) investment in medical waste treatment is a model applied by many countries to encourage every economic sector to participate in it. The experience of other countries shows that waste collection and treatment through the PPP model is effective, thus stimulating every economic sector to spend funds on renewing infrastructure facilities and technology and training h...
10/10/2016
Human civilization has flourished during the uniquely stable biophysical conditions of the Holocene. But over the past decades, the combination of rapid population growth and rapid increases in per capita consumption have led to an extraordinary ballooning of humanity’s ecological footprint. We have converted roughly half the ice-free, desert-free land surface to croplands and pastures.
10/10/2016
World The estimates are based both on more knowledge about the diseases caused by air pollution, and on better assessment of human exposure to it, enabling scientists to make a more detailed analysis of health risks from a wider demographic spread that now includes rural as well as urban areas.orld Health Organization (WHO) estimates released in 2015 reported that in 2012, around 7 million people ...
10/10/2016
At the moment, there are no set of criteria that can be used to evaluate the status of green growth in countries. They only gave some criteria to evaluate and classify green businesses, sustainable businesses and social enterprises.
10/10/2016
Located in the monsoonal tropical area, Việt Nam is one of the world’s biodiversity centres with diverse natural ecosystems. Forest, wetland, marine, limestone, hill, coastal sand ecosystems… with typical tropical peninsula features, are the habitats and development areas of many unique and rare wildlife; are the areas that contain valuable wildlife genetic sources, particularly medicinal plants, ...
10/10/2016
The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has recently organised a ceremony to launch the Programme of Sustainable Corporate Evaluation and Classification 2016 (SCECP). The Programme was conducted in accordance with the Việt Nam Government’s Announcement no.398/TB-VPCP issued on December 15th on ranking sustainable companies, beginning in 2016. The Environment Magazine has talked to Mr. ...
10/10/2016
A serious environmental incident caused by Formosa Hà Tĩnh once again raises an issue of Việt Nam’s “right to choose” in attracting FDI. To better understand Việt Nam’s recent FDI attracting policies, Environment Magazine has interviewed Prof. Nguyễn Mại - Chairman of Vietnam Association of Foreign Investment Enterprises (VAFIE)
10/10/2016
In the past years, Việt Nam has made significant socio-economic achievements. However, it has also faced numerous challenges of environmental degradation and pollution. Therefore, it is necessary to develop environmental services to meet increasing demand for pollution control, waste treatment and environmental improvement
10/10/2016
On March 18th, 2016, the Vietnam’s Prime Minister issued Decision No. 428/QĐ-TTg on approving Adjusting National Power Development Plan from 2011 to 2020, with vision towards 2030 (referred to as Adjustment Power Plan VII), with a view to develop renewable energy (RE) is a breakthrough towards ensuring national energy security and reducing negative impacts on the environment. Environment Magazine ...
10/10/2016
After five-years implementation of the National Target Program on New Rural Development in many provinces, environmental protection in Việt Nam has been paid attention and achieved considerable outcomes: clean water supply system has been invested and put into operation; rural area landscape has been renovated and upgraded; good models in development of rural environment are in place…
10/10/2016
On 1/7/2016, the Prime Minister promulgated Decree no. 60/2016/ND-CP regulating some business investment conditions in the field of natural resources and environment (Decree). The Decree regulates some business conditions in water resources, minerals and environmental protection.
