Related news from: 2018

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  Approval of national environmental planning prior to 2018

  (14:28:04 PM 17/10/2014)

  ​In the morning of September 23, in Hanoi, Vice Minister Bui Cach Tuyen chaired a meeting with the drafting committee and editorial team for the Draft decree on environmental protection planning, strategic environmental assessment (SEA), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Protection Plan.

  Tags: Approval, national, environmental, planning, prior, 2018
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  VN's internet company valued at US$1 billion

  (15:26:39 PM 09/08/2014)

  Total turnover of Vietnam’s internet economy’s is scheduled to soar to VND100 trillion by 2018 from the VND20.4 trillion in 2013.

  Tags: VNG, Internet economy, VN's internet company, valued, US$1 billion
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  USAID Promotes Chi Initiative to Drive Down Demand for Rhino Horn


  (23:02:22 PM 28/08/2018)

  HANOI, August 28, 2018 – Today, the USAID Wildlife Asia project launched the third phase of the Chi Initiative, a program to help decrease consumer demand for rhino horn in Vietnam.

  Tags: USAID, Promotes, Chi, Initiative, Drive, Down , Demand, Rhino Horn

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  Members of Vietnamese and German companies take pledge against wildlife crime

  (20:38:46 PM 30/06/2018)

  Hanoi, Viet Nam, 29th June 2018 ­­­-- Representatives of several Vietnamese and German companies active in Viet Nam pledged to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on wildlife crime today in Hanoi.

  Tags: Members, Vietnamese, German, companies, take, pledge, against , wildlife , crime
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  FOUR PAWS ends bile bear keeping in Ninh Binh province

  (09:18:09 AM 27/04/2018)

  26.04.2018 - For two Vietnamese bile bears May and Binh Yen, who lived most of their lives in agony on a bear farm in the Vietnamese province of Ninh Binh, their time of suffering is finally over.

  Tags: FOUR PAWS, ends, bile, bear keeping, Ninh Binh, province
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  Hanoi mobilizes resources to improve the city’s air quality

  (09:40:23 AM 28/11/2018)

  Hanoi, November 27, 2018 – Today, The Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DONRE) of Hanoi in cooperation with the German Development Cooperation Agency GIZ - commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) on behalf of the Government of Germany, and the Center for Living and Learning for Environment (Live & Learn) organizes the workshop "Enhancing the engagement of stakeholders in air quality management of Hanoi" in Hanoi.

  Tags: Hanoi, mobilizes, resources, improve , city’s, air quality
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  Traditional medicine students and lecturers work to discourage prescription of illegal wildlife products

  (10:39:25 AM 28/05/2018)

  Hanoi, Viet Nam, 25th May 2018—Students, lecturers, and faculty staff from five of Viet Nam’s traditional medicine (TM) universities developed communications strategies to combat the use of illegal wildlife products in traditional medicinal treatments as part of a two-day workshop that concluded today in Cuc Phuong National Park.

  Tags: Traditiona, l medicine, students, lecturers, work, discourage, prescription, illegal, wildlife, products
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  Accelerating the implementation of the Paris Agreement in Viet Nam through joint national and international efforts

  (17:58:48 PM 07/11/2018)

  HANOI, 7 Nov. 2018, Achieving the climate targets that Viet Nam has set itself under the Paris Agreement will require substantial efforts from the national government as well as international support. To ensure joint and concerted action, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), the NDC Partnership, and the German Development Cooperation Agency GIZ, commissioned by Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU), co-organised an international workshop today.

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  Global Environment Facility funded 7 ideas

  (09:40:58 AM 16/10/2014)

  The Vietnam Global Environment Facility (GEF) National Dialogue with the 6-cycle period from 2014 to 2018 recently concluded with successful results. GEF has chosen 7 out of 15 ideas proposed for GEF’s funded projects in Vietnam. They are: Sustainable Urban Development; Wildlife conservation; Reducing carbon emissions; Controlling persistent organic pollutants; Strengthening cooperation to protect the international water resources; Biodiversity mechanisms and Ensuring sustainable financing mechanisms. In 7 ideas, Sustainable Urban Development and Wildlife Conservation are two particularly interested ideas.

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  ECOSYSTEM-BASED ADAPTATION PROJECT SUPPORTS COMPREHENSIVE COOPERATION FOR VIETNAM’S CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSE

  (10:27:37 AM 07/02/2018)

  Ha Noi, February 6th, 2018 – A workshop to close the ‘Strategic Mainstreaming of Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) in Viet Nam’ project was held in Hanoi today. The workshop was organized by the Institute for Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment (ISPONRE) under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) in collaboration with the German Development Cooperation GIZ, an organization commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).

  Tags: ECOSYSTEM-BASED ADAPTATION PROJECT SUPPORTS, COMPREHENSIVE, COOPERATION, FOR, VIETNAM’S, CLIMATE, CHANGE, RESPONSE