Vietnam promotes int’l cooperation for completing climate commitments
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha had a meeting with visiting President for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) Alok Kumar Sharma in Hanoi on August 29.
Hanoi (VNA) – Minister of Natural Resources andEnvironment Tran Hong Ha had a meeting with visiting President for the 26thUnited Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) Alok Kumar Sharma in Hanoi onAugust 29.
Ha highly valued Sharma’s great attention to cooperationwith Vietnam in climate change response and energy transition through theholding of two online meetings with Vietnamese officials and two visits toVietnam in the past six months.
He said that as part of the efforts to realise Vietnam’scommitments at COP26, his ministry has built and submitted to the Government aNational Strategy on Climate Change until 2050, a plan to reduce methaneemissions, and many other important documents.
The official noted that the ministry is reviewing andupdating Vietnam's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to ensure thecountry’s contributions to greenhouse gas emission reduction and adaptation toclimate change is in line with the National Strategy on Climate Change.
The contents of the 2022 NDC will follow that of the updated2020 NDC, which will comprise additional actions to complete Vietnam'scommitments at COP26, with specific calculations on Vietnam's commitments to2030 on the foundation of goals set in the National Strategy on Climate Change until2050, he said.
Leaders of the Party and State of Vietnam attach great importance topromoting cooperation in climate change response and energy transition, the minister said and suggested that Sharma encourage parties to provide a stable financial support with clear information of capital amount and provision roadmap so that Vietnamcan actively implement the transition process.
Underlining the climate change impacts in the Mekong Delta,central, Central Highlands and northern mountainous regions of Vietnam, Ha saidthat in the time to come, Vietnam will build mechanisms and policies to enhancethe resilience and adaption capacity for these areas.
For his part, Sharma said he will hasten relevant agencies to continue supporting Vietnam with finance and technology so that the country can complete its strongcommitments at COP26, and held that countries should be more drastic in switchingtraditional energy sources to green energy.
Sharma said that the G7 hopes that JETP will act as a "coordinationcentre" to help coordinate the group’s international support and cooperationfor Vietnam in a harmonious, unified and effective manner. For this, Vietnamand its partners will have a common approach, avoiding having to work with eachpartner individually, limiting waste and duplication, thus making it easier forVietnam and its partners to achieve their goals, he added./.
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Illustrative image (Source: VNA) 
