The overall objective of Hospital Waste Management Support Project (HWMSP), funded by World Bank, is to reduce the environmental pollution caused by medical waste from hospitals in Vietnam, contributing to improving the health of the people.
From May 4, 2017, the communication campaign for “Green Growth (GG), sustainable consumption of transportation and commerce sector, etc., promoting green production models, green consumption, green lifestyle” has officially started. The media campaign is organized by the Institute of Ecology and Environment (EEI) and CREATIO Creative Solutions Company Limited under the supervision and management of the PMU "Capacity Building Support And institutional reform for green growth and sustainable development in Vietnam" - CIGG.
Wind power has currently become one of major energy sources. Recently, Vietnam started to conduct scientific researches in order to exploit the potential of the new energy source. A project was conducted to study and analyze the development of wind power in Ca Mau, one southern province of Vietnam. The aim of this project was to generate a view of current status of wind power development, financing ability of national and international investors.
Since 1960s, biogas technology has been introduced and attracted much attention in Vietnam as an effective solution to supply energy as well as diminish of environmental pollution in the countryside. Through several periods of development, biogas technology has developed vigorously within the framework of sanitation, agriculture and rural development projects with many types of new biogas digesters. A study of biogas development was conducted in some Northern provinces forward the implementation of the mitigation targets in the National Determined Contribution (NDC) of Vietnam.
Over 30 years since Doi Moi, Vietnam has been moving rapidly toward industrialization and modernization. The economy is growing steadily at a rate of about 6% per year (2006-2015) in parallel with the increase in the contribution of industry to Gross Domestic Product.