Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said, in spite of being a new direction with a plenty of institutional challenges and resources, sustainable green growth will be an apparent trend for Vietnam's economy. To successfully carry out the strategy, Vietnam must have a lot of concrete policies and actions to achieve its objectives.
Vietnam is one of a few countries seriously vulnerable to climate change coupled with extreme climate phenomena like storms, intense heat, floods, droughts and extreme climate. Particular, the Mekong Delta is one of three deltas very vulnerable to sea level rise. Clearly being aware of climate change impacts, the Government of Vietnam has developed and implemented the National Target Programme to Respond to Climate Change, joined by central ministries, branches and localities to work out obvious and effective actions.
At a recent seminar on conclusion of the support project to the enforcement of the Vietnam Green Growth Strategy adopted by the Ministry of Planning and Investment in cooperation with Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Mr Taeho Ro, Director General of Global Strategy Centre, of the Korea Environment Institute (KEI), said, the Vietnam Green Growth Strategy for (VGGS) and Green Growth Action Plan (GGAP) approved by the Prime Minister in 2012 and 2014 are necessary important legal frameworks to promote green growth. After the analysis of Vietnamese legal documents by sector on green growth carried out by KEI, the Ministry of Planning and Investment agreed to narrow sectors needed to be analysed in detail. Accordingly, four core industries are industry, energy, planning and investment, and environment.
Specifically, the regulatory framework for green industrial growth strategy, based on Decision 403/QD-TTg dated March 20, 2014 on approving the Vietnam Green Growth Plan in the 2014-2020 phase is classified into four groups: Environmental industry; cleaner production; waste management; and green production and local industry. In this field, researchers put forth recommendations for drafting new decrees on short-term environmental industrial development in the short-term to easily carry out in a long period from 2015 to 2016.
In the medium and long terms, drafting new laws on environment industrial development is needed to support the supply of equipment and aids for industrial development projects and promoting international cooperation. Circulars and decrees are created according to the Law on Environmental Protection 55/2014/QH13. In waste management, it is important to build new laws to boost economic circulation to deal with waste recycling and reuse of economic resources, including industrial mechanism, waste management information, and recycling management system.
Legally, VGGS concerning energy comprises energy saving and efficiency, subsidies and tariffs of renewable energy, green label, and smart power grid.
The task of the legal framework for the deployment of VGGS in the planning and investment sector is to contribute the State budget for green growth of the national economy by saving resources and promoting investment with main contents like issuing a new circular on criteria and standards for promotion of the Government Decree 63/2014/ND-CP dated June 26, 2014 of the Government providing details to some articles of the Law on Procurement on contractor selection and Law on Procurement 43/2013/QH13. It is vital to provide budgetary support for the implementation of green growth.
Also in the topic covering attraction drafting the action plan for green growth strategy for localities with environmental pollution caused by rapid urbanisation and by unplanned economic - investment development, Mr Hoi Seong Jeong, President of the Korea Environment and Civilisation (E&C), gave hints to visions and strategies for projects and programmes carried out in Bac Ninh, Quang Nam and Ben Tre provinces.
Anh Phuong
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