Vietnamese Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh (second from left) and other delegates to the third P4G Summit in Bogota, Colombia. (Source: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment ) Addressing the third summit, held on September 22 - 23, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh thanked other P4G members for supporting Vietnam to host the next event.
He affirmed that Vietnam will exert all-out efforts and hopesto receive experience and assistance from Colombia and other countries so thatit can fulfill its role.
Vietnam will work to ensure the next summit’s agenda matchesthe P4G countries’ priorities and global concerns, including food security andpoverty reduction, management and sustainable use of cross-border waterresources, the building and operation of early warning systems and themonitoring of climate change impacts, finance for efforts towards net zeroemissions and just energy transition, carbon smart agriculture, and a circulareconomy for plastics, the official noted.
During the third P4G Summit, Khanh had bilateral meetingswith a deputy minister for development cooperation and global climate policy ofDenmark, a deputy minister of environment of the Republic of Korea (RoK), thePresident and CEO of the World Resources Institute, and the P4G ExecutiveDirector.
The partners highly valued Vietnam’s proactivenessand sense of responsibility when it proposed to be the venue of the fourth P4GSummit in 2025. They also pledged to coordinate with Vietnam to successfullyorganise the event while improving the effectiveness and maximise the role ofP4G in helping countries to carry out climate actions and targets.
Members of the Vietnamese delegation also took part in thesummit’s group discussions about energy transition and sustainable cities. Theyhad working sessions with the P4G Secretariat and P4G coordinators of Colombiaand the RoK to share experience in holding P4G events.
The third P4G Summit, held by the ColombianGovernment, saw the presence of about 500 delegates from 12 countries andpartner organisations. Themed “TransformativeAlliances for Sustainability: Actions towards green growth and life”, itfocused on biodiversity, energy transition, and sustainable cities.
The event reaffirmed the role of green growth in economicrecovery and the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It alsocalled on countries to create conditions for the private sector to further bringinto play their role in promoting technological solutions, innovation, financefor green transition and sustainable development, and create new jobs in greenindustries.
P4G, whose predecessor is the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF),took shape in 2017 at the initiative of the Danish Government. It currently has12 member countries, namely Denmark, Chile,Mexico, Vietnam, the RoK, Ethiopia, Kenya, Colombia, the Netherlands,Bangladesh, Indonesia, and South Africa. It is also participated by over 90 othercountries, international organisations, and businesses.
Vietnam is one of the seven founding members and an officialpartner of P4G.
P4G isconsidered a leading forum in the world in promoting public - private partnershipand connecting governments, businesses, and socio-political organisations in devisingbreakthrough solutions about green growth to help achieve the SDGs. Its summitsare held every two years./.
VNA
