The Vietnam Women Entrepreneurs Council (VWEC) under the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) held a workshop on advancing partnership toward green growth and women's economic empowerment on December 11 in Hanoi.
Vietnam has increased forest coverage from 23% in 1994 to more than 45% today, demonstrating a remarkable commitment to forestation, according to Alexis Corblin, Regional Technical Advisor of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, in collaboration with the Vietnam Farmers' Union Central Committee and Bac Ninh provincial People’s Committee, held a ceremony in Thuan Thuan town, on September 16 in response to the 2023 “Clean up the world” Campaign.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has called on other ministries, agencies and localities to organise activities to clean up the environment and fight plastic waste in response to World Environment Day (June 5), World Oceans Day (June 8) and Vietnam Sea and Island Week.
Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of Vietnam’s permanent mission to the United Nations (UN), presented the country’s policies to promote green agriculture at a sideline event of the High-level Political Forum of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York on July 11.
