Tag:Vietnam

Climate Change

Climate change: Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C

Vietnam has recorded its highest ever temperature, just over 44C (111F) - with experts predicting it would soon be surpassed because of climate change. The...

Michael Simire - May 7, 2023

Climate Change

Vietnam aims to supply more renewable energy to combat climate change

Vietnam’s trade ministry has set the target to have 15-20 per cent renewable energy sources in its total primary energy supply by 2030, local...

Michael Simire - February 6, 2023

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Reactions trail Vietnam’s $15bn Just Energy Transition Partnership deal

The $15.5 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership between Vietnam, the European Union and the United Kingdom could see Vietnam hit peak emissions earlier than...

Michael Simire - December 15, 2022

Conservation

Group seeks international cooperation to tackle wildlife crime in Vietnam

Despite government efforts to reverse the tide of illegal wildlife trade, Vietnamese-led criminal networks continue to play a major role in fuelling poaching and...

Michael Simire - November 24, 2021

Pollution

Germany, Ecuador, Ghana, Vietnam seek global agreement against marine litter

The environment ministers of Germany, Ecuador, Ghana and Vietnam are holding an international ministerial conference against marine litter in September 2021 to promote a...

Michael Simire - April 1, 2021

Conservation

Man gets 12-year jail term for smuggling 29 kg of rhino horn

A court in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region sentenced a man to 12-and-a-half years in jail for illegally transporting 29 kilogrammes of white rhino horn from...

Michael Simire - December 30, 2020

Disaster Risk Management

Vietnam prepares to evacuate 1.2m people as powerful storm approaches

Vietnamese authorities said on Monday, October 26, 2020 that it was preparing to evacuate 1.2 million people along the country’s central coast as powerful...

Michael Simire - October 26, 2020

Disaster Risk Management

117 dead, 21 missing in Central Vietnam’s natural disasters

Floods, landslides and other natural disasters triggered by downpours have left 117 people dead and 21 others missing in Vietnam’s central and central highlands...

Michael Simire - October 23, 2020

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Agric & BiotechMay 29, 2023

AATF partners ECOWAS to improve agricultural productivity

Low agricultural productivity, food and nutritional insecurity and availing smallholder farmers access to life-changing technologies are issues that AATF...

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